"blessing the boats (at saint maryâ€™s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that"

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Source : Lucille Clifton (1991). “Quilting: poems, 1987-1990”, BOA Editions Ltd.

Lucille Clifton

#Eye Quotes #Kissing Quotes #Blessing Quotes

“I love to know that in all parts of the world, people want me. I need the attention.”
“In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects... We are over our heads.”
“Somebody would come in and say, I never take a good picture. I'd say, Why not? You've got two eyes, a nose, and a mouth like everybody else.”
“Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way”

Source : Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics
“I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.”
“Swingers are all from the suburbs and consequently brain-addled by car pools, shopping malls, and welcome wagons.”
“The highest distinction is service to others.”
“I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.”

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