Edith L. Tiempo > Quotes

“All that I love
I fold over once
And once again”
― Edith L. Tiempo

“To scale all love down
To a cupped hand’s size”
― Edith L. Tiempo

“It’s utter sublimation,
A feat, this heart’s control
Moment to moment
To scale all love down
To a cupped hand’s size”
― Edith L. Tiempo

“Love is many and truth is just,
And so we are; Both
What we choose,
And we refuse.”
― Edith L. Tiempo

“What the mind forgets
The scars keep remembering”
― Edith L. Tiempo, Marginal Annotations and Other Poems

“True that life is given,
And received. But truer still:
The single-act of giving
Makes the offerer the beggar, too—

For when down on the knees
The man (or god) stretches the arms
In giving,
It is no accident the hands
Are curled like bowls or cups,
For he offers self, yet
Begs it back again.”
― Edith L. Tiempo, An Edith Tiempo Reader

“For when down on the knees
The man (or god) stretches the arms
In giving,
It is no accident the hands
Are curled like bowls or cups,
For he offers self, yet
Begs it back again.”
― Edith L. Tiempo

“True that life is given,
And received. But truer still:
The single-act of giving
Makes the offerer the beggar, too—”
― Edith L. Tiempo