poetry quotes Flashcards
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Hotel room 12th floor quotes - (8)
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- like a damaged insect
- empire state building/ jumbo sized dentist drill
- darkness is shot at by a million lit windows
- uncivilised
- but midnight is not so easily defeated
- wildest
- broken bones…. harsh screaming…. blood glazed
- ululating
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Brooklyn Cop quotes - (8)
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- built like a gorilla
- thick fleshed
- thin tissue
- should the tissue tear….Louie’s place”
- never get back to?
- his victims?
- victims
- see you babe, he hoped it he truly hoped it
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Basking shark quotes - (9)
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- to stub an oar
- roomsized monster
- decadent townee
- swish up the dirt
- a spring
- he displaced more than water
- whos the monster?
- grow pale/ for twenty seconds
- centuries
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visiting hour quotes - (9)
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- hospital smell combs my nostrils
- a corpse
- heavenward
- ward 7
- glass fang
- books that will not be read
- fruitless fruits
- so many farewells, so much pain
- a withered hand
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Assisi quotes - (12)
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- dwarf
- hands on backwards
- sat slumped
- i understood
- the illiterate
- rush of tourists (collective noun)
- clucking contentedly
- fluttered
- grazie
- voice as sweet as a childs
- or a birds when it spoke to st francis
- advantage
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Aunt Julia quotes - (12)
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- Gaelic
- I could not… I could not
- mens boots when she wore any
- paddling with the treadle of a spinning wheel
- marvellously
- Aunt Julia spoke loud and fast
- black and sandy contrast
- absolute black
- absolute darkness
- unanswered
- box bed
- repetition of very
