Robert Hayden quotes
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“As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth, as well have a hollow as a heart.”
-- Robert HaydenSource : Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.152, University of Michigan Press
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“Midnight Special on a sabre track movering movering, first stop Mercy and the last Hallelujah.”
-- Robert HaydenSource : Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.182, University of Michigan Press
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“Harriet Tubman, woman of earth, whipscarred, a summoning, a shinning”
-- Robert HaydenSource : Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.181, University of Michigan Press
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“Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters pursuing and the hounds pursuing and the night cold and the night long and the river to cross and the jack-muh-lanterns beckoning beckoning and blackness ahead”
-- Robert HaydenSource : Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.59, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.”
-- Robert HaydenSource : Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.163, University of Michigan Press
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“Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth”
-- Robert HaydenSource : Robert Earl Hayden (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.166, University of Michigan Press
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“[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.”
-- Robert HaydenSource : Robert Earl Hayden (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.27, University of Michigan Press
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“Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.”
-- Robert HaydenSource : Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.153, University of Michigan Press
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“It seemed to me as we were talking about Christ rising from the dead, the sun popped over the mountain. That was indicative of Christ rising - a new day. It just makes sense.”
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“We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.”
-- Robert HaydenSource : Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company
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“I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.”
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“What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?”
-- Robert HaydenSource : "ThoseWinter Sundays" l. 10 (1962)
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“Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.”
-- Robert HaydenSource : Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.115, University of Michigan Press
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“Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him.”
-- Robert HaydenSource : Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company
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“This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.”
-- Robert HaydenSource : Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.62, W. W. Norton & Company
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