Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Nikky Finney

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Nikky Finney.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Nikky Finney is an American poet. She was the Guy Davenport Endowed Professor of English at the University of Kentucky for twenty years. In 2013, she accepted a position at the University of South Carolina as the John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair in Southern Letters and Literature. An alumna of Talladega College, and author of four books of poetry and a short-story cycle, Finney is an advocate for social justice and cultural preservation. Her honors include the 2011 National Book Award for her collection Head Off & Split.

American - Poet | Born: August 26, 1957

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I remember saying to myself those things are very, very important to hear, but there must be another way to say them so that they will truly be heard. I mean, that's what art is. Art is about being provocative. Art is also about beauty. And if you leave the latter out, the former doesn't matter.

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My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.

Nikky Finney

In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of the human being, naked and facing the natural world, desperate to feel. I did not realize while reading Render how deeply I was handing everything over.

Nikky Finney

The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.

Nikky Finney

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

Nikky Finney