Robert Hayden quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Robert Hayden

Robert Hayden Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from Robert Hayden on Wise Famous Quotes.

As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth,
as well have a hollow as a heart.

This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?

[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality ... a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.

Harriet Tubman,

woman of earth, whipscarred,
a summoning, a shinning

Midnight Special on a sabre track movering movering,
first stop Mercy and the last Hallelujah.

Standing to America, bringing home
black gold, black ivory, black seed.

Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.

I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.