Famous quotes containing the words american and/or poet:
“The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)
“The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)