How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
At night I talked to myself to stay awake. I said the poems of Homer and Langston Hughes. I liked the words. They comforted me. Their rhymes. Their beats. They made a place for me. They kept me strong." (32.24)
Again we see the calming properties of poetry. Cecile uses it to keep her mind sharp and her spirit alive, and in this way, it restores her. She no longer has to focus on being pent up but instead recites famous poems. Art invigorates Cecile.