When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge
ABERJHANIAs a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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To heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries
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Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts.
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The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
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Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration.
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His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
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This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.
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Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.
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