Christopher Okigbo Quotes

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We carry in our worlds that flourish, our worlds that have failed.

Christopher Okigbo

Eye open on the sea,
eyes open, of the prodigal;
upward to heaven shoot
where stars will fall from

Christopher Okigbo

Out of the solitude, the fleet,
Out of the solitude,
Intangible like silk thread of sunlight,
The eagles ride low,
Resplendent... resplendent;
And small birds sing in shadows,
Wobbling under their bones.

Christopher Okigbo

I see many colours in the salt teeth of foam
Which is no where to face under the half-light
The rainbow they say is full of harmonies
We shall make a grey turn to face it.

Christopher Okigbo

Is there... Is certainly there...
For as in sea-fever globules of fresh anguish
immense golden eggs empty of albumen
sink into our balcony...
How does one say NO in thunder?

Christopher Okigbo

One dips one's tongue in the ocean;
Camps with the choir of inconstant
Dolphins, by shallow sand banks
Sprinkled with memories;
Extends one's branches of coral,
The branches extends in the senses'
Silence; this silence distills
in yellow melodies.

Christopher Okigbo

Before you, mother Idoto,
naked I stand;
before your watery presence,
a prodigal.

Christopher Okigbo

Christopher Okigbo

Christopher Okigbo

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Born: August 16, 1932

Died: 1967 (aged 34)

Bio: Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo was a Nigerian poet, teacher, and librarian, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra. He is today widely acknowledged as an outstanding postcolonial English-language African poet and one of the major modernist writers of the 20th century.

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