Being Unsparing Quotes

“what i can promise to be is water,
water plain and direct as Niagara.
unsparing of myself, unsparing of
the cliff i batter, but also unsparing
of you, tourist. the question for me is
how long can i cling to this edge?”
― Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000