Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Eduardo C. Corral

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Eduardo C. Corral.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Eduardo C. Corral

Eduardo C. Corral is an American poet and MFA Assistant Professor in the Department of English at NC State University. His first collection, Slow Lightning, published by Yale University Press, was the winner of the 2011 Yale Younger Series Poets award, making him the first Latino recipient of this prize. His 2020 work, guillotine, was awarded the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for gay poetry and was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry.

American - Poet | Born: 1970
Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn’t love him. Not because he was a beast or white — I couldn’t love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn’t feel it.
The heart can only be broken / once, like a window. — © Eduardo C. Corral
The heart can only be broken / once, like a window.
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