Avignon/peopleborn or Died in Avignon

Famous quotes containing the words avignon and/or died:

“he was sitting
and saying over
those green words
Laura and laurel
written in Avignon ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“I didn’t think I’d come out alive; in fact, I was seeing death. But I was prepared to die as long as I died for the truth, and I knew that people would know that this was the case.”
—Connie Mofokeng (b. 1959)