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Giannina Braschi on Poetry

born 1953 Puerto Rico

← All quotes by Giannina Braschi

4 quotes

A poet rises while falling. It’s the rising in the falling that makes him rise posthumously.

United States of Banana (2011)

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.

Yo-Yo Boing! (1998)

—Poets and anarchists are always the first to go.
—Where.
—To the frontline. Wherever it is.

Yo-Yo Boing! (1998)

You cannot measure IQ through poetry.

Yo-Yo Boing! (1998)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Giannina Braschi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.