Famous quotes containing the words national, symbols, jordan and/or bird:
“National isolation breeds national neurosis.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)
“That way of inspiration
is always open,
and open to everyone;
it acts as go-between, interpreter,
it explains symbols of the past
in to-day’s imagery.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires ...”
—June Jordan (b. 1936)
“The skreak and skritter of evening gone
And grackles gone and sorrows of the sun,
The sorrows of sun, too, gone . . . the moon and moon,
The yellow moon of words about the nightingale
In measureless measures, not a bird for me....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)