Quotes Flashcards
My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps to come and waste their time and ours : perhaps you’d care to join us?
Analysis
Yet stop I did, in fact I often do
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I could spend half my evenings, if I wanted, holding a glass of washing sherry, canted over to catch the drivel of some bitch
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Brewed god knows how long
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I think I made you up inside my head
Analysis
Talking to god (who’s gone too) ; the big wish is to have people nice to you, which means doing it back somehow.
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God topples from the sky, hells fires fade
Analysis
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed and sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane
Analysis
I should have loved a thunderbird instead ; at least when spring comes they roar back again
Analysis
The gas fire breathes
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Just think of all the spare time that has flown straight into nothingness by being filled with forks and faces, rather than repaid under a lamp
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But superstition, like belief, must die, and what remains once disbelief has gone? Grass, weedy pavement, brambles,buttress, sky.
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The art of losing isn’t hard to master
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It’s evident the art of losing’s not too hard to master though it may look like (write it!) like disaster
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead
Analysis
So many things seemed filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster
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And sitting by a lamp more often brings not peace, but other things
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Beyond the light stand failure and remorse, whispering dear warlock-Williams : why, of course —
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A hunger in himself to be more serious
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— even losing you( the joking voice, a gesture I loved) I shan’t have lied.
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Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent
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Move him into the sun
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Then practice losing farther, losing faster : Places and names and where it was you meant to travel
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Gently it’s touch awoke him once, at home whispering of fields unsown
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