Terrance Hayes Quotes

#1. I'll eat you to live: that's poetry.

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#2. Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks ... Soon it will all make sense.

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#3. If you and every person in the county mailed
me an envelope of five to ten dollars, I think
I could rehabilitate the sheep.

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#4. I wish I could weep the way my teacher did as he read us Molly Bloom's soliloquy of yes.

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#5. Trouble is one of the ways we discover the complexities Of the soul.

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#6. My mother was a dark red head wrap. Her life had been heavier than the fire she carried on her back. This is the meaning of the past, Boy. There were maps & scriptures carved into my palms, whole towns

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#7. Can you remember the womb? How, in the moments before birth, The lines were washed from the map That told the route you'd come?

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#8. It might be the white woman or man our son or daughter will marry and the white woman or man our grandson or granddaughter will marry, all of them wading into the future until one of our line claims to be Sicilian. Leave instructions: the granddaughter of our granddaughter shall be named Cicily.

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#9. I believe everything is a metaphor for sex.

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#10. This is what it means to believe in ascension and fear climbing.

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#11. Ask a glass of water why it pities
the rain. Ask the lunatic yard dog why it tolerates the leash.

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