Annie > Annie's Quotes

“Point your fire like a flower.”
― Annie Finch, Calendars

“Live not for Battles Won.
Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
Live in the along.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, Report from Part One

“Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“I feel the nights stretching away
thousands long behind the days
till they reach the darkness where
all of me is ancestor.”
― Annie Finch, Spells: New and Selected Poems

“Mother loosen my tongue or adorn me
with a lighter burden”
― Audre Lorde, Our Dead Behind Us: Poems