Michael S. Harper Quotes

• The responsibility to nightmare is to wake up.

  Michael S. Harper

  Responsibility, Wake Up, Nightmare

  Michael S. Harper (1977). “Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems”, p.37, 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.

  Michael S. Harper

  America, Moral, Week

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• A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.

  Michael S. Harper

  Jazz, Risen

  Michael S. Harper (1970). “Dear John, Dear Coltrane: Poems”, p.5, University of Illinois Press

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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. Harper

  Angel, Son, Oxygen

  Michael S. Harper (1977). “Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems”, p.197, University of Illinois Press

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