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Lenrie Peters Quotes

1932–2009

Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters (1 September 1932 – 28 May 2009) was a Gambian poet, novelist, surgeon and educationist. He was born in Bathurst (now Banjul), The Gambia, and studied in The Gambia, Sierra Leone and England, eventually qualifying as a surgeon.

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"The mind is like the desert winds ploughing the empty spaces."

"It is I who carry your past, i forbid progress, and I who measure out your future like a potion."

"All poetry is a search, and mine is no exception. A search for the nature of human consciousness and of the universe—its joy and despair, its passion. Its sublime nobility and its degradation—the miracles of nature. A search for the meaning of existence and of man's setting within it."

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