Cancer Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim Download Open image “In the poem "C," the crows are associated with cancer, because I had suffered a cancer scare.” — Shirley Geok-lin Lim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cancer Crow Poetry Scare
Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Crows played a significant Role during my Psychosis, they reminded me of the Apocalypse – even nowadays, their cawing reminds me to stay humble.” — Sino Melo Copy Share Image
I don't like crows. In the poem "C," crows are predatory, killing other birds and so forth. But in my morning walks, there were… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Murder of crows. Horrible term, considering the circumstances. Why couldn’t they be flocks like other birds?” — Jaime Jo Wright Copy Share Image
“Crows squawked raucously in the trees. It sounded like they were tearing something apart, something they didn't even want, just for the fun of… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“The clatter of Crow calling to Crow - is there anywhere a friendlier, happier sound?” — Clem Martini Copy Share Image
“As soon as one crow made eye contact with me, it cawed. The rest followed suit and dozens of crows orbited around over me,… — Stacy Claflin Copy Share Image
“And I, you, and he; and we, ye, and they, are all bats; and I'm a crow, especially when I stand a'top of this… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“One crow means sorrow, two crows mean joy, three crows a wedding, four crows a boy, five crows mean silver, six crows mean gold,… — E.A. Gottschalk Copy Share Image
Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die. — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Once you stop talking about the female body empowering itself vis-à-vis male forays or invasions or male demands or the necessity to respond to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
If you've been in a symbolic struggle long enough, even when the struggle is over, you don't know it's over. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
"I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
“Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world sweetest cancer.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When people go get chemo, they're not injecting themselves with will - I have lost various loved ones to cancer, and I certainly don't… — Michael C. Hall Copy Share Image
“the doctor hesitated before breaking the news to her. "those aren't stars. it's cancer." - forty years a smoker” — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken as unity… — Richard Doll Copy Share Image