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Lorna Goodison Quotes

born 1947 Jamaica

Lorna Gaye Goodison (born 1 August 1947) is a poet, essayist and professor from Kingston. She was the Poet Laureate of Jamaica from 2017 until 2020.

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Random Lorna Goodison quote

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I just love what's happening now; it's like there's a big tapestry and everybody has a corner because everybody has a story to tell.

with Wasafiri (1989)

I love words, I really love the pleasure and consolation you get from words. Words can be nourishing or medicinal or at their worst, poisonous.

Talk Yuh Talk: Interviews with Anglophone Caribbean Poets (2000)

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