Creative Quotations from . . .
Lucille Clifton
(1936-____) born on Jun 27
US "poet, educator". "She has written more than twenty books for children and adults, one of which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize."
 
   
F
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language."

R
children
when they ask you
why your mama so funny
say
she is a poet
she don't have no sense.
A
i keep hearing
tree talk
water words
and i keep knowing what they mean.
N
". . . even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties, in my definitions, I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me. Stability comes from inside, not outside...."
K
"People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "Listen to Their Voices," ch. 9, by Mickey Pearlman, 1993."
R: ""Admonitions," "Good Times.""
A: ""Breaklight," "An Ordinary Woman," 1974."
N: "In "The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya," by Terri L. Jewell, 1993."
K: "In "Poets and Writers Magazine," 1992."



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