Labyrinths Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Labyrinths.
Top Quotes
“‘O mother mother Earth, unbind me; let this be my last testament’”
“JSTOR”
“‘foreshadows its going /Before a going and coming that goes on forever…’”
“Today-for tomorrow, today becomes yesterday: How many million promises can ever fill a basket..."”
“Okigbo accompanies us the oracle enkindles us’ and ‘Okigbo accompanies us the rattles enlighten us’”
“If I don’t learn to shut my mouth I’ll soon go to hell. I Okigbo, town-crier, together with my iron bell’”
“the drums speak in broken and disjointed tunes reminiscence of invocation: ‘We are tuned for feast-of-seven-souls’”
“books”
“Obscurity and impenetrability in the mind of the persona are obvious in ‘after we had formed/ then only the forms were formed/ and all the forms/ were formed after our forming”
“later grew into a ceremony of innocence, something like a mass, an offering to Idoto, the village stream of which I drank, in which I washed, as a child; the celebrant, a personage like Orpheus, is about to begin a journey””
“The entrapped is not only stripped of dignity and identity in the mind, the meaninglessness of the trap makes the persona suddenly become ‘talkative like the weaverbird’, and in ‘Between sleep and waking’ abruptly brandishes ‘A tiger mask and nude spear….’ ** Okigbo 1971,23”