Chenjerai Hove Professions : Poet Born : February 9, 1956 Died : July 12, 2015 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Chenjerai Hove When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death. Chenjerai Hove silent silence writing Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be. Chenjerai Hove creativity space desire Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors