Yezierska Anzia Quotes

#1. The real thing creates its own poetry. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#2. Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#3. The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#4. This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher! #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#5. When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#6. A poor man is a living dead one. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#7. I want knowledge. How, like a starved thing in the dark, I'm driven to reach for it. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#8. I tasted the bread and wine of equality. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#9. I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing
righteous indignation. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#10. Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#11. I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#12. A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#13. If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#14. For a little while when we were lovers I breathed the air from the high places where love comes from, and I can't no more come down. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#15. At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#16. Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#17. Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#18. The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#19. Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#20. As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#21. Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America? #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#22. The world is a wheel always turning. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska

#23. Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. #Quote by Anzia Yezierska