Carolyn Forche Quotes & Sayings

We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work. — Carolyn Forche

There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing. — Carolyn Forche

The worst is over, the worst is yet to come — Carolyn Forche

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

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

the silence of God is God. — Carolyn Forche

One can live without having survived — Carolyn Forche

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even. — 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 all, a people who were the heart of our country and lifeblood of our culture. After rising water, winds and abandonment, after our failure and neglect, comes this symphony of utterance from the ruins: many-voiced, poignant, sorrowful and fierce. This is poetry taking the full measure of its task. — Carolyn Forche

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