The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.
– Henry Miller, writer and painter
There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.
– Wilson Mizner, earl 20th Century playwright
Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
– Audre Lorde, "Poetry is not a Luxury," in
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, 1984.
All copyrights belong to Audre Lorde and associated parties
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