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Naomi Replansky
19 quotes
“My spoon was lifted when the bomb came down/That left no face, no hand, no spoon to hold./A hundred thousand died in my home town./This came to pass before my soup was cold. ("Epitaph: 1945")”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hungry, not one word here/is as good as bread.”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“they swarmed everywhere,/the unwritten poems.”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They went hunting lions/But a flea attacked them/And their hunters' passion/Narrowed to a flea.”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No god came down, my brothers,/To breathe on them, my sisters./Their bodies made a mountain/That never touched the heavens./Whose lightning struck the killers?/Whose rain drowned out the fires?/My brothers and my sisters,/No angel leaned upon them./No miracle could shield them/From the cold human hands.”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I learned the speech of birds; now every tree/Screams out to me a baleful prophecy.”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All, all runs wild, all wild and uncontrolled./A toad hops from my mouth instead of gold.”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Excuse me for living,/But, since I am living,/Given inches, I take yards,/Taking yards, dream of miles/And a landscape, unbounded/And vast in abandon./And you dreaming the same.”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was, I did, but I will let it be./Tonight I must hold dear/Whatever brought me here.”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I must learn again to give it welcome.”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The hunters hang onto their man/And merrily pass by/Where I scot-free and you scot-free/Stand in the shadow of Why.”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Born of a war, I was always aching and straining/To nuzzle myself into peace./Peace when it came was hunted and haunted, and stayed/Just for a moment.”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In silence is the smell of treachery, and sanction/Of hunger, and therefore I shout./But in the storm of sound I clothe myself/In a hush like fur.”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unmade by what has made me”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When there was one kiss/against ten curses/and one loaf/against ten hungry/and one hello/against ten goodbyes/the odds stalked/your crooked steps.”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His praise like rain runs down the gutters”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My words may turn into stones/as easily as a man/turned one day into silence.”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neither destroyed nor diamond/I walk from the core of your flame,/The rain does not hiss when it hits me,/And I answer to my old name.”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tomorrow we cross/The borders of loss”
Naomi Replansky (1918–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source