Carolyn Forche Quotes

• We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work.

  Carolyn Forche

  Opportunity, Voice, Choices

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• Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

  Carolyn Forche

  Voice, Soul, Singing

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• The heart is the toughest part of the body.
  Tenderness is in the hands.

  Carolyn Forche

  Love, Heart, Hands

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• One can live without having survived

  Carolyn Forche

  Survived

  Carolyn Forche (2010). “Blue Hour: Poems”, p.167, Harper Collins

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• If I just work when the spirit moves me, the spirit will ignore me.

  Carolyn Forche

  Moving, Spirit, Ignore Me

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• There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.

  Carolyn Forche

  Choices, Cyclones, World

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• A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.

  Carolyn Forche

  Writing, Done, Pieces

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• Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die before us all, a people who were the heart of our country and lifeblood of our culture. After rising water, winds and abandonment, after our failure and neglect, comes this symphony of utterance from the ruins: many-voiced, poignant, sorrowful and fierce. This is poetry taking the full measure of its task.

  Carolyn Forche

  Country, Heart, Wind

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