Dreams Quote by Carolyn Forché

A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript…

— Carolyn Forche

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

— Carolyn Forche

The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.

— 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…

— 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…

— Carolyn Forche

If I just work when the spirit moves me, the spirit will ignore me.

— Carolyn Forche

“The worst is over, the worst is yet to come”

— 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.”

— Carolyn Forché

“He swept the ears to the floor with his arm and held the last of his wine in the air. Something for your poetry,…

— Carolyn Forché

One can live without having survived

— Carolyn Forche

“Before enduring it we will endure it.”

— Carolyn Forché

“In the night I come to you and it seems a shame to waste my deepest shudders on a wall of a man.”

— Carolyn Forche