Tade Ipadeola Quotes
born 1970 Nigeria
Tade Ipadeola (born September 1970 in Fiditi, Oyo State) is a Nigerian poet who writes in English and Yoruba. He is a practising lawyer.
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Feeling one’s way towards substance, emotionally and intellectually, I guess, is the touchstone for poetry.
Read poetry, and essays, and good fiction. Read collections of poetry, novels, the occasional biography and autobiography, short story collections and books of essays all interest me.
Affection springs from nothing. Mere carriage of the head may seduce the heart and win it.
It is an odd phenomenon in human nature that those who were recipients of human kindness when it mattered most sometimes become the most virulent misanthropes.
I want to keep saying the kinds of things that provoke thought and reflection in my readers. I want to create beauty and grace on the page and off the page.
My first written poems were in English but I have written a couple of poems in Yoruba and I have translated some of my own poems into Yoruba from English.
From now on, the miles
are marked with milestones
of sapphire and a bush
of flowers each
a different fragrance, each a note
from your music that wore a hat
and spurred my wistfulness