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This suggests that people are drawn to poetic language even when they do not label it that way. The quote can be taken to mean that song, rhythm, and image satisfy a deep human hunger for expression, so popular music can carry the force of poetry. It lands when explaining why lyrics can move listeners beyond their literal meaning.
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About Maya Angelou
American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist
Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist. Her work spans more than 50 years, and she is best known for a series of autobiographies that began with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in 1969. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and her credits also include plays, films, and television shows. The autobiographical books focus on her childhood and early adult life, especially the first volume, which takes her story to age 17 and brought her international recognition. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.
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- “I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I…”Maya Angelou
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- “Take the blinders from your visiontake the padding from your earsand confess you've heard me crying and admit…”Maya Angelou
- “Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.”Maya Angelou
Listening: more sayings
- “I grew up with my parents always listening to rock music. My dad wanted me to play guitar, but I always had m…”Murda Beatz
- “When it comes to '90s R&B, I grew up on a lot of Aaliyah and Destiny's Child, Missy Elliott, Usher, Jill Scot…”Justine Skye
- “Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.”Donella Meadows
More Poetry quotes
- “in a slapfight with Jesusmy face bleedsbecause no one cut their fingernails back then”Daniel Bailey
- “Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is wi…”Henry Beston
- “Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on…”Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Books by Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The first volume of her autobiography.