Quotes by Aberjhani

About Aberjhani:

American-born author Aberjhani is an historian, columnist, novelist, poet, and editor. Although well known for his blog articles on literature and politics, he is perhaps best known as co-author of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance and author of The River of Winged Dreams. The encyclopedia won a Choice Academic Title Award in 2004.
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With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.

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The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

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Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams...

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This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

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I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

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In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love.

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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

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With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.

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You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

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Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

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What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean tha...

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Eastward and westward storms are breaking,--great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.

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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.

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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

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In an age of bombs guzzling blood, skylarks merge peace with thought and action.

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Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.

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Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.

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This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.

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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in...

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Author Bio

  • NameAberjhani
  • DescriptionAuthor
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Historian; Novelist