Maya Angelou Quotes About Poetry

• Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Writing, Poetry

• Poetry is music written for the human voice.

  Maya Angelou

  Voice, Poetry, Humans

  1989 In' The Power of the Word', Public Broadcasting Service,15 Sep.

• I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.

  Maya Angelou

  Good Life, Mean, People

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 04, 2012

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