Lucille Clifton Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

  Lucille Clifton

  Different, Asking, Bigger

• wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week early and wearing a white skirt. i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashes and clots like you wouldn't believe. let the flashes come when they meet someone special. let the clots come when they want to. let them think they have accepted arrogance in the universe, then bring them to gynecologists not unlike themselves.

  Lucille Clifton

  Believe, Son, Thinking

  Lucille Clifton (1991). “Quilting: poems, 1987-1990”, BOA Editions Ltd.

• Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

  Lucille Clifton

  Adversity, Break, Made

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