Stephanie Hemphill quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Stephanie Hemphill

Stephanie Hemphill Famous Quotes & Sayings

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If I were a man
I might not wear the cloak
of anonymity.

I cannot be assured of
exactly what I created
be it madness and monster
or beauty and light.

All you know is
you must change sail
to catch it.

Inside a book, she captures all that's lost. She journals so her words won't fly away.

Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world.

Why uproot
a perfectly healthy
white blazing star
from the soil
to allow room
for a roadside weed?

I fret for Sylvia.
She appears anchored
to the idea of sinking,
which is silly when she so clearly
soars above almost everyone.

It may be safe to walk,
but where do you go
when all directions wear
the same black ashen despair?

We built a world of words
and yet none satisfy now.

The trees' bare bony fingers
point crookedly
towards Heaven or Hell
or worse than that, towards nowhere.

Give me the strength to leaf, for I fear otherwise we may hang ourselves.