Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Reznikoff

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Charles Reznikoff.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Charles Reznikoff was an American poet best known for his long work, Testimony: The United States (1885–1915), Recitative (1934–1979). The term Objectivist was coined for him. The multi-volume Testimony was based on court records and explored the experiences of immigrants, black people and the urban and rural poor in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He followed this with Holocaust (1975), based on court testimony about Nazi death camps during World War II.

American - Poet | August 31, 1894 - January 22, 1976

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The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.

Charles Reznikoff

Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish

Charles Reznikoff

The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the creaking of many axles; only the tired walker know how much there is to climb, how the sidewalk curves into the cold wind.

Charles Reznikoff

The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.

Charles Reznikoff

I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.

Charles Reznikoff