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Quotes from Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin — Anna Margolin

1887–1952 United States

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6 quotes

Drunk from the bitter truth,/I refuse all other wine.

Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin (2005)

Somewhere in the world, in a city/I am flowering like a lily.

Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin (2005)

The creative person wears a mask... just like a sculptor wears an apron."

Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin (2005)

The authentic artist carries within himself another world to which the ordinary person has no access. The great value of the poet is that he enriches us with new, thoroughly experienced feelings, with unseen or differently seen landscapes.

Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin (2005)

I know that my devils have knives instead of teeth, and snakes instead of fingers. I can't do very much about that. I can't just get rid of them.

Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin (2005)

Say this: until her death
She faithfully protected
With her bare hands
The flame entrusted to her
And in that same fire
She burned.

Drunk from the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margolin (2005)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anna Margolin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.