"You don't want the children to know how afraid / you are. You want to be sure their hold on life / is steady, sturdy. Were mothers and fathers / always this anxious, holding the ringing / receiver close to the ear: / 'Why don't they answer where could they be?"

--

Source : Gail Mazur (1995). “The Common”, p.33, University of Chicago Press

Gail Mazur

#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Father Quotes

“She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.”
“You may exist in this world--but I exist too and I will not yield”
“In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.”
“The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing.”
“Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.”
“Be careful what you choose: You may get it.”
“If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.”
“Guidance is everything, you have to accept that somebody is their own person, an individual.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

You may also like:

Frank Bidart
Academic
Robert Pinsky
Poet