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Name Quotes by Audre Lorde
- Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are…
- The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we…
- Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.
- ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate…
- Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then…
- . . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but…
More Name Quotes
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. — Julian Assange
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because… — Teresa of Avila
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects… — Gaston Bachelard
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the… — Nicholson Baker