Lucille Clifton Quotes

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
Lucille Clifton

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
Lucille Clifton

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Maya Angelou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, e. e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Biography

Type: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: June 27, 1936

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