Clifton Forge

Famous quotes containing the words clifton and/or forge:

“Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.”
—Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)

“None can re-enter there—
No thief so politic,
No Satan with a royal trick
Steal in by window, chink, or hole,
To bind or unbind, add what lacked,
Insert a leaf, or forge a name,
New-face or finish what is packed,
Alter or mend eternal fact.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)