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> [“In the night I come to you and it seems a shame to waste my deepest shudders on a wall of a man.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-forche/in-the-night-i-come-to-you-and-it-seems-a-shame-to-waste-my-deepest/)

[Carolyn Forche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-forche/)

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## More by Carolyn Forche

> [A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-forche/a-thing-may-in-itself-be-the-finest-piece-of-writing-one-has-ever/)

[Carolyn Forche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-forche/)

> [Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-forche/poetry-is-the-voice-of-the-soul-whispering-celebrating-singing-even/)

[Carolyn Forche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-forche/)

> [The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-forche/the-heart-is-the-toughest-part-of-the-body-tenderness-is-in-the-hands/)

[Carolyn Forche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-forche/)

> [We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-forche/we-are-responsible-for-the-quality-of-our-vision-we-have-a-say-in-the/)

[Carolyn Forche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-forche/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-forche/blood-dazzler-is-patricia-smith-s-impassioned-lyric-chronicle-of-a/)

[Carolyn Forche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-forche/)

> [If I just work when the spirit moves me, the spirit will ignore me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-forche/if-i-just-work-when-the-spirit-moves-me-the-spirit-will-ignore-me/)

[Carolyn Forche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-forche/)

> [“The worst is over, the worst is yet to come”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-forche/the-worst-is-over-the-worst-is-yet-to-come/)

[Carolyn Forche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-forche/)

> [“...the Roanoke valley where mountains hold the breath of the dead between them and lift from each morning a fresh bandage of mist.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-forche/the-roanoke-valley-where-mountains-hold-the-breath-of-the-dead/)

[Carolyn Forché](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-forche/)

> [“He swept the ears to the floor with his arm and held the last of his wine in the air. Something for your poetry,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-forche/he-swept-the-ears-to-the-floor-with-his-arm-and-held-the-last-of-his/)

[Carolyn Forché](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-forche/)

> [One can live without having survived](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-forche/one-can-live-without-having-survived/)

[Carolyn Forche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-forche/)

> [“Before enduring it we will endure it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-forche/before-enduring-it-we-will-endure-it/)

[Carolyn Forché](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-forche/)

> [“The memories are few and like dreams of her life resuming a muted sound of snow    falling into itself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-forche/the-memories-are-few-and-like-dreams-of-her-life-resuming-a-muted/)

[Carolyn Forché](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-forche/)

> [“In the night I come to you and it seems a shame to waste my deepest shudders on a wall of a man.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-forche/in-the-night-i-come-to-you-and-it-seems-a-shame-to-waste-my-deepest/)

[Carolyn Forche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-forche/)

> [There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-forche/there-is-a-cyclone-fence-between-ourselves-and-the-slaughter-and/)

[Carolyn Forche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-forche/)

> [“the silence of God is God.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-forche/the-silence-of-god-is-god/)

[Carolyn Forché](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-forche/)

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