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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hayden/runs-falls-rises-stumbles-on-from-darkness-into-darkness-and-the/)

[Robert Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hayden/)

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## More by Robert Hayden

> [It seemed to me as we were talking about Christ rising from the dead, the sun popped over the mountain. That was indicative of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hayden/it-seemed-to-me-as-we-were-talking-about-christ-rising-from-the-dead/)

[Robert Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hayden/)

> [This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hayden/this-freedom-this-liberty-this-beautiful-and-terrible-thing-needful/)

[Robert Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hayden/)

> [Midnight Special on a sabre track movering movering, first stop Mercy and the last Hallelujah.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hayden/midnight-special-on-a-sabre-track-movering-movering-first-stop-mercy/)

[Robert Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hayden/)

> [As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth, as well have a hollow as a heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hayden/as-well-have-a-talon-as-a-finger-a-muzzle-as-a-mouth-as-well-have-a/)

[Robert Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hayden/)

> [Standing to America, bringing home black gold, black ivory, black seed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hayden/standing-to-america-bringing-home-black-gold-black-ivory-black-seed/)

[Robert Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hayden/)

> [We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hayden/we-must-not-be-frightened-nor-cajoled-into-accepting-evil-as/)

[Robert Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hayden/)

> [Harriet Tubman, woman of earth, whipscarred, a summoning, a shinning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hayden/harriet-tubman-woman-of-earth-whipscarred-a-summoning-a-shinning/)

[Robert Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hayden/)

> [Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters pursuing and the hounds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hayden/runs-falls-rises-stumbles-on-from-darkness-into-darkness-and-the/)

[Robert Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hayden/)

> [Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hayden/art-is-not-escape-but-a-way-of-finding-order-in-chaos-a-way-of/)

[Robert Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hayden/)

> [Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hayden/shuttles-in-the-rocking-loom-of-history-the-dark-ships-move-the-dark/)

[Robert Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hayden/)

> [“We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hayden/we-must-not-be-frightened-nor-cajoled-into-accepting-evil-as-2/)

[Robert Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hayden/)

> [“Unable to sleep, or pray, I stand by the window looking out at moonstruck trees a December storm has bowed with ice. Maple and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hayden/unable-to-sleep-or-pray-i-stand-by-the-window-looking-out-at/)

[Robert Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hayden/)

> [I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hayden/i-believe-it-s-true-that-one-person-can-make-a-difference-but-how/)

[Robert Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hayden/)

> [“O Jesus burning on the lily cross... O night, rawhead and bloodybones night... O night betrayed by darkness not its own.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hayden/o-jesus-burning-on-the-lily-cross-o-night-rawhead-and-bloodybones/)

[Robert Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hayden/)

> [Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-hayden/your-presence-was-shore-where-i-rested-released-from-the-hoodoo-of/)

[Robert Hayden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-hayden/)

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