Top 6 Thabo Jijana Quotes
#1. I hope for my poetry to be empirical.
It shall suggest making love:
you will want the usual
in an unusual way.
Thabo Jijana
#2. Of course he was there, a removed audience
of my redemption songs from beyond the grave,
the way Kafka and his father continued to shadow-box,
long after they quit staring at each other
at the dinner table.
Thabo Jijana
#3. they had merely acquired
a shared affection for funerals
the way some people
love public holidays:
Thabo Jijana
#4. We are all orbits of some sort,
circling around the world we call our own,
and literature...
Literature is a compass;
Thabo Jijana
#5. now,
never mind
the boy who came out of that reading room
a new man,
safe in the hope of what was to come
in the summers of his life.
Thabo Jijana
#6. all is dead
but for the mosquitoes
singing
their blood song
Thabo Jijana
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