InspiringQuotes

Zora Neale Hurston Quotes:

Ocupation: Anthropologist

Life: January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960

Birthday: January 7

Death: January 28

She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.

- Zora Neale Hurston

source: Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.15, University of Illinois Press

topic: Voice, Roots, Dust, Pears, Ecstatic, Eyes Watching, Soaking

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