Charles Reznikoff Quotes

• The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.

  Charles Reznikoff

  Inspirational, Faces, Your Face

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• I will walk by myself
  and cure myself
  in the sunshine and the wind.

  Charles Reznikoff

  Sunshine, Wind, Cures

  Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.186, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish

  Charles Reznikoff

  Lying, Rubbish, Bricks

  Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.

  Charles Reznikoff

  Oil, Light, Long

  Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.226, David R. Godine Publisher

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• The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.

  Charles Reznikoff

  Tired, Night, Journey

  Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.157, David R. Godine Publisher

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