Famous quotes containing the words margaret abigail walker, abigail walker, margaret abigail, abigail and/or walker:
“When and where will another come to take your holy place?
Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)
“Imp at three and wench at ‘leben
She counted her husbands to the number seben.”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)
“croppers rotting shacks
with famine, terror, flood, and plague near by;
where sentiment and hatred still held sway
and only bitter land was washed away.”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)
“Traveller take heed for journeys undertaken in the dark of the year.
Go in the bright blaze of Autumn’s equinox.”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)
“For my people lending their strength to the years: to the gone
years and the now years and the maybe years, washing ironing cooking scrubbing sewing mending hoeing plowing digging planting pruning patching dragging along never gaining never reaping never knowing and never understanding;”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)