Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life. Robert Hayden More Quotes by Robert Hayden More Quotes From Robert Hayden As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery. Robert Hayden possibility writing discovery We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us. Robert Hayden political struggle evil I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99. Robert Hayden differences believe people [My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns. Robert Hayden definitions discovery reality This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth. Robert Hayden air beautiful men Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness Robert Hayden running night fall As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth, Robert Hayden muzzle mouths heart Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again. Robert Hayden spokes voice dance Harriet Tubman, Robert Hayden summoning slavery earth Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him. Robert Hayden sunday weather father It seemed to me as we were talking about Christ rising from the dead, the sun popped over the mountain. That was indicative of Christ rising - a new day. It just makes sense. Robert Hayden mountain talking new-day Standing to America, bringing home Robert Hayden ivory home america Midnight Special on a sabre track movering movering, Robert Hayden track midnight special What did I know, what did I know Robert Hayden office lonely knows Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, Robert Hayden dark kindness moving
