Poetry quotes Flashcards

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War photographer

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“Finally alone”
“Running children in a nightmare heat”
“Half-formed ghost”
“Blood stained into foreign dust”
“Rural England”
“He stares impassively”

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Originally

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“All childhood is an emigration”
“My toungue shedding its skin like a snake”
“Bawling”
“Your accent wrong”

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Valentine

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“Cling to your knife”
“Lethal”
“Possesive and faithful”
“It promises light”

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In Mrs Tilscher’s class

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“Stared at your parents, appalled,”
“Inky tadpoles changed from commas to exclamation marks”
“Sky split open into a thunderstorm”
“Impatient to be grown”

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The way my mother speaks quotes

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“Browsing for the right sky”

“too blue swapped for a cool grey”

“what like is it”

“homesick, free, in love”

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Mrs Midas

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“Face was strange, wild, vain”
“Spitting out teeth of the rich”
“I poured with a shaking hand”
“Near petrified”

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