Robert Hayden Quotes

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• This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.
• Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in…
• Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.
• I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.
• We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of…
• It seemed to me as we were talking about Christ rising from the dead, the sun popped over the mountain. That was indicative of Christ…
• Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.

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