Lorna Dee Cervantes quotes
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“A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.”
-- Lorna Dee CervantesSource : Francisco X. Alarcón, Lorna Dee Cervantes (1989). “Chicanas Y Chicanos en Diálogo”
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“Regret is an uneven hand, a rough palm at the cheek — tender and calloused.”
-- Lorna Dee CervantesSource : Lorna Dee Cervantes (2013). “Sueno”, p.3, Wings Press
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“I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.”
-- Lorna Dee CervantesSource : "Fooling with Words". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 28, 1999.
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“The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.”
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Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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“The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.”
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