Marge Piercy Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire.

  Marge Piercy

  Sexy, Lying, Eye

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Colors Passing Through Us”, p.134, Knopf

• Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.

  Marge Piercy

  Dream, Eye, Artist

  Marge Piercy (2010). “He, She and It”, p.67, Fawcett

• A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.

  Marge Piercy

  Strong Women, Eye, Justice

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.76, Knopf

• I stayed under the moon too long.I am silvered with lust.Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes.My voice is trees tossing in the wind.I loose myself like a flock of blackbirdsstorming into your face.My lightest touch leaves blue prints,bruises on your mind.Desire sandpapers your skinso thin I read the veins and arteriesmaps of routes I will traveltill I lodge in your spine.The night is our fur.We curl inside it licking.

  Marge Piercy

  Dream, Eye, Moon

  Marge Piercy (2013). “What Are Big Girls Made Of?: Poems”, p.69, Knopf

• Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. If you can't bless it, get ready to make it new.

  Marge Piercy

  Mother, Children, Father

  Marge Piercy (2013). “The Art of Blessing the Day: Poems with a Jewish Theme”, p.12, Knopf

• When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

  Marge Piercy

  Eye, Angel, Brain

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.117, Knopf

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