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Ciona D. Rouse
Goodreads Author
Born
Atlanta, The United States
Website
Genre
Influences
Rebecca Gayle Howell
Terrance Hayes
Rita Dove
Terrance Hayes
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Member Since
July 2007
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/cionar
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Like Breath and Water: Praying with Africa
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2010
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2 editions
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Vantablack
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2017
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Companions in Christ Way of Pilgrimage: Participant's Book (2)
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2007
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"I’d really hoped that I’d be able to relate to Dolly Alderton but this has to be one of the most privileged, entitled pieces of writing I’ve ever come across. Her experience as a woman in her 20s may ring true to an affluent minority but she’s certai"
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“I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy... you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.”
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“I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.”
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“Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,
write me a poem,” deserves something in reply.
So I’ll tell a secret instead:
poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes,
they are sleeping. They are the shadows
drifting across our ceilings the moment
before we wake up. What we have to do
is live in a way that lets us find them.”
― Red Suitcase
write me a poem,” deserves something in reply.
So I’ll tell a secret instead:
poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes,
they are sleeping. They are the shadows
drifting across our ceilings the moment
before we wake up. What we have to do
is live in a way that lets us find them.”
― Red Suitcase
“I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love.”
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“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
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