Lorna Dee Cervantes quotes

“A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.”
-- Lorna Dee Cervantes

Source : 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 Cervantes

Source : 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 Cervantes

Source : "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.”

“First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.”

“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

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.

“The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.”

“Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'”

“The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.”

“A world ends when its metaphor has died.”

“The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.”

“I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.”

“Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.”