Quotes by Yvette Christiansë

About Yvette Christiansë:

Yvette Christiansë is a South African-born poet and novelist. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at Barnard College.
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Wishes are sometimes just stories that have nowhere to go.

Yvette Christiansë

In the distance,far over there, only the eyes can travel when the body is weary.

Yvette Christiansë

Sleeping is forgetting and forgetting is peace.

Yvette Christiansë

I do not want to be like a small animal bitten by a snake, going stiff with that poison. I want to bite back.

Yvette Christiansë

That is how it is with lies. If you can have enough people believe your lies, before you know it, even the one you have lied against will be confused. The lie will make itself at home and the truth will be knocking outside its own door.

Yvette Christiansë

Author Bio

  • NameYvette Christiansë
  • DescriptionSouth African born poet, novelist, and scholar
  • CountrySouth Africa
  • ProfessionPoet