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Mongane Wally Serote

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Also known as Mongane Serote

South African poet and writer

Person · Open Library

Born
1944
Works
19

Top works

  • Selected poems
  • Rumours
  • The night keeps winking
  • Quite footsteps
  • To every birth its blood

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
FR
Active from
1965

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Quotes

  • It is that wind it is that voice buzzing it is whispering and whistling in the wires miles upon miles upon miles on the wires in the wind in the subway track in the rolling road in the not silent bush it is the voice of the noise here it comes the Third World Express they must say, here we go again.
  • O, go away, you steely monster! Why must you arrive so soon When I, at the moment, am lost in thought And wish that I could hide myself At home among the mielie-stalks, Covered with cobs, surrounded by pumpkins; For there I should never be disturbed By bustling crowds of chattering people Passing noisily on their way: I see them at dawn, I see them at dusk – At sunrise and sunset they pass me by.

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