Skip to content

Quotes from Yo-Yo Boing! — Giannina Braschi

born 1953 Puerto Rico

← All quotes by Giannina Braschi

7 quotes

What is dignity? The measure of liberty.

Yo-Yo Boing! (1998)

And besides, all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

Yo-Yo Boing! (1998)

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)

Politics is the domestication of war.

Yo-Yo Boing! (1998)

What is dignity? The measure of liberty.
* "If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him".

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.