# Dhalgren

- Author: [Samuel R. Delany](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany.md)
- Quotes: 4
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/dhalgren

## Quotes

> to wound the autumnal city.
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> So howled out for the world to give him a name.
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> The in-dark answered with wind.

p. 1

> "The parts I like, well..." He shook his head, with pursed lips. "They just don't have anything to do with me: somebody else wrote them, it seems, about things I may have thought about once. The parts I don't like--well, I can remember writing those, oh yeah, word by word by word."

p. 357

> I want to know but I can't see are you up there. I don't have a lot of strength now. The sky is stripped. I am too weak to write much. But I still hear them walking in the trees; not speaking. Waiting here, away from the terrifying weaponry, out of the halls of vapor and light, beyond holland and into the hills, I have come to

p. 801

> Perhaps it's good you're not going to write anymore: you'd have to start considering all those dull things like your relation to your audience, the relation between your personality and your poetry, the relation between your poetry and all the poetry before it.

p. 357