16 Quotes by Robert Hayden about Poetry
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We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human,though monsters of abstraction police and threaten us.Reclaim now, now renew the vision of a human world where godliness is possible and man is neither gook nigger honkey wop nor kike but man permitted to be man.
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something they call the american dream sure we still believe in it i guess an earth man in the tavern said irregardless of the some times night mare facts we always try to double talk our way around and its okay the dreams okay and means whats good could be a damn sight better means every body in the good old u s a should have the chance to get ahead or at least should have three squares a day as for myself i do okay
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I will no longer ask for more than you have freely given or can give.
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In time, you will come to regard my questioningwith a certain pained amusement; in time, get soyou would hardly find it possible to live withoutmy joke and me.
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Know that love has chosen youto live his crucial purposes.
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I grieve. Yet know thevanity of grief.
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Know that love has chosen you to live his crucial purposes. Know that love has chosen you. And will not pamper you nor spare;demands obedience to all the rigorous laws of risk, does not pamper, will not spare. Oh, master now love's instruments—complex and not for the fearful, simple and not for the foolish. Master now love's instruments. I who love you tell you this, even as the pitiful killer waits for me, I who love you tell you this.
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