Author: Robin Coste Lewis

Quotes

Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were, a primary means of documenting and contemplating our lives.

Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were, a primary means of documenting and contemplating our lives.

- Robin Coste Lewis

Poetry is this gorgeous, complex history rendered in verse and song, a blueprint that can lead you back into the world after you've walked into air.

Poetry is this gorgeous, complex history rendered in verse and song, a blueprint that can lead you back into the world after you've walked into air.

- Robin Coste Lewis

I am an artist through to my marrow, which might be a curse and not necessarily a good thing.

I am an artist through to my marrow, which might be a curse and not necessarily a good thing.

- Robin Coste Lewis

We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that.

We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that.

- Robin Coste Lewis

Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.

Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.

- Robin Coste Lewis

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