Hayden

Famous quotes containing the word hayden:

“Luna presence,
foredoomed, already dying,
it charged the room
with plangency

older than human
cries,”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

“As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth,
as well have a hollow as a heart.”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

“this man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro
beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world
where none is lonely, none hunted, alien,
this man, superb in love and logic, this man
shall be remembered.”
—Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)