"I like to think that I'm giving a…" — Selima Hill

"I like to think that I'm giving a voice to the silenced..."

— Selima Hill

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13 Quotes by Selima Hill

Selima Hill has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent…
An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives…
If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to…
I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person.
All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say…
When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding.…
Poetry is a big space and I love it.
There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort…
The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being…
I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or…
I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be.
What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past…

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More Giving Quotes

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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be… — Hannah Arendt
I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can… — Alexis Arguello
I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;… — Aristotle
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They… — Karen Armstrong
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself… — Johann Arndt
Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great… — Isaac Asimov
For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi

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