Chrystos Professions : Poet Born : November 7, 1946 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Chrystos They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked rare book libraries / our dances on film / The only part of us they can't steal / is what we know. Chrystos library museums book Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease. Chrystos disease culture thinking Our sacred beliefs have been made pencils / names of cities / gas stations / My knee is wounded so badly that I limp constantly / Anger is my crutch / I hold myself upright with it / My knee is wounded / see / How I Am Still Walking. Chrystos knees cities names Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now. Chrystos reactions sensible depression The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree. Chrystos gossip fruit tree Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors