Olga Broumas Quotes

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When you died I didn't weep nor dream but knew you like a god breathe in each healing we begin.

Olga Broumas

Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings up from sand gravel soil through straw bamboo wood and less tangible elements Power song for the hands Healing song for the senses what can and cannot be perceived of the soul.

Olga Broumas

Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.

Olga Broumas

I am a woman
who understands
the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin
still lie beyond me.

Olga Broumas

She who loves roses must be patient
and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

Olga Broumas

Whatever is past
and has come to an end
cannot be brought back by sorrow.

Olga Broumas

I grow old, old
without you, Mother, landscape
of my heart.

Olga Broumas

Olga Broumas

Olga Broumas

Born: May 6, 1949 (age 77)

Bio: Olga Broumas is a Greek poet, resident in the United States.

Known for:

Beginning with O (1977)
Sappho's gymnasium (1994)
Rave: Poems 1975-1999 (1999)
Pastoral jazz (1983)
Soie sauvage (1979)

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