Top 4 Quotes by Michael S. Harper

The responsibility to nightmare is to wake up.

Responsibility, Wake Up, Nightmare

Michael S. Harper (1977). “Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems”, p.37, University of Illinois Press

I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

America, Moral, Week

A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.

Jazz, Risen

Michael S. Harper (1970). “Dear John, Dear Coltrane: Poems”, p.5, University of Illinois Press

A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy

Angel, Son, Oxygen

Michael S. Harper (1977). “Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems”, p.197, University of Illinois Press

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