4 Quotes & Sayings By George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke is a writer, historian, and professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal. He has published fifteen novels, including The Diviners (winner of the Governor General's Award and the City of Toronto Book Award), and four volumes of poetry. He has served as an official poet to the Governor General of Canada and is a recipient of the Order of Canada. His books have been translated into Italian, German, French, Spanish, Korean and Japanese Read more

He lives in Montreal with his wife and children.

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A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once, clouds begin to sob for such beauty. Clothing drops like leaves." No one makes poetry, my Mme.Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah, ”I whisper. She smiles: “We’ll shape it withour souls.” Desire illuminates the dark manuscriptof our skin with beetles and butterflies. After the lightning and rain has ceased, after the lightning and rain of lovemakinghas ceased, Selah will dive again into thesunflower-open river. George Elliott Clarke
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The moon twangs its silver strings; The river swoons into town; The wind beds down in the pines, Covers itself with stars. George Elliott Clarke
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In school, I hated poetry - those skinny, Malnourished poems that professors love; The bad grammar and dirty words that catch In the mouth like fishhooks, tear holes in speech. Pablo, your words are rain I run through, Grass I sleep in. George Elliott Clarke