Joy Kogawa Professions : PoetBorn : June 6, 1935 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Joy Kogawa Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life. Joy Kogawa soilgardentools People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind. Joy Kogawa usesufferingpeople Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire. Joy Kogawa firehandsfiction Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire. Joy Kogawa firehandsfiction Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poetAll Authors
