Youth Poetry Slam

Famous quotes containing the words youth, poetry and/or slam:

    “If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “It’s not a slam at you when people are rude—it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)