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Charles Reznikoff Quotes

The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.

The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.

Charles Reznikoff
Inspirational, Faces, Your Face

I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.

Charles Reznikoff
Sunshine, Wind, Cures
Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.186, David R. Godine Publisher

Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish

Charles Reznikoff
Lying, Rubbish, Bricks
Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.

Charles Reznikoff
Tired, Night, Journey
Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.157, David R. Godine Publisher

The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.

Charles Reznikoff
Oil, Light, Long
Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.226, David R. Godine Publisher

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