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> [Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/things-don-t-fall-apart-things-hold-lines-connect-in-thin-ways-that/)

[Lucille Clifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucille-clifton/)

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## More by Lucille Clifton

> [wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/wishes-for-sons-by-lucille-clifton-i-wish-them-cramps-i-wish-them-a/)

[Lucille Clifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucille-clifton/)

> [“these hips are big hips. they need space to move around in. they don't fit into little petty places.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/these-hips-are-big-hips-they-need-space-to-move-around-in-they-don-t/)

[Lucille Clifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucille-clifton/)

> [“a tongue blistered with smiling”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/a-tongue-blistered-with-smiling/)

[Lucille Clifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucille-clifton/)

> [Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/intellect-doesn-t-translate-across-cultures-intuition-does/)

[Lucille Clifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucille-clifton/)

> [Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/poetry-is-a-matter-of-life-not-just-a-matter-of-language/)

[Lucille Clifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucille-clifton/)

> [I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/i-keep-hearing-tree-talk-water-words-and-i-keep-knowing-what-they-mean/)

[Lucille Clifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucille-clifton/)

> [You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/you-might-as-well-answer-the-door-my-child-the-truth-is-furiously/)

[Lucille Clifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucille-clifton/)

> [“walked erect out of my sleep”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/walked-erect-out-of-my-sleep/)

[Lucille Clifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucille-clifton/)

> [In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/in-the-bigger-scheme-of-things-the-universe-is-not-asking-us-to-do/)

[Lucille Clifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucille-clifton/)

> [If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/if-i-should-enter-the-house-and-speak-with-my-own-voice-at-last-about/)

[Lucille Clifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucille-clifton/)

> [telling the truth about children's lives is radical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/telling-the-truth-about-children-s-lives-is-radical/)

[Lucille Clifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucille-clifton/)

> [To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/to-be-a-good-poet-you-must-care-more-about-the-writing-than-the-writer/)

[Lucille Clifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucille-clifton/)

> [“i am rejuvenated bones rising from the dear floor where they found you”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/i-am-rejuvenated-bones-rising-from-the-dear-floor-where-they-found-you/)

[Lucille Clifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucille-clifton/)

> [“they will empty your eyes of everything you love”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/they-will-empty-your-eyes-of-everything-you-love/)

[Lucille Clifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucille-clifton/)

> [All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucille-clifton/all-people-even-one-s-own-children-come-with-baggage-when-they-re/)

[Lucille Clifton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucille-clifton/)

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