Michael S. Harper quotes
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“A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy”
-- Michael S. HarperSource : Michael S. Harper (1977). “Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems”, p.197, University of Illinois Press
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“I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.”
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“The responsibility to nightmare is to wake up.”
-- Michael S. HarperSource : Michael S. Harper (1977). “Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems”, p.37, University of Illinois Press
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“A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.”
-- Michael S. HarperSource : Michael S. Harper (1970). “Dear John, Dear Coltrane: Poems”, p.5, University of Illinois Press
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“The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.”
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Source : Abraham Coles (1892). “Abraham Coles: Biographical Sketch, Memorial Tributes, Selections from His Works, (some Hitherto Unpublished.)”
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“No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.”
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