Carolyn Forche Inspirational Quotes (7)

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.

The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.

There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.

We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work.

If I just work when the spirit moves me, the spirit will ignore me.

One can live without having survived