poetry quotes Flashcards
2 ozymandius quotes
‘the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed’
‘the lone level sands stretch far away’
2 London quotes
‘marks of weakness, marks of woe’
‘blights with plagues the marriage hearse’
2 prelude quotes
‘heaving through the water like a swan’
‘a huge peak, black and huge’
2 MLD quotes
‘as if she ranked my 900 year old name with anybody’s gift’
‘notice Neptune, though’
2 CotLB quotes
‘cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, cannon in front of them’
‘all the world wondered’
2 exposure quotes
‘but nothing happens’
‘for the love of God seems dying’
2 storm on the island quotes
‘bombarded by the empty air’
‘it is a huge nothing that we fear’
2 bayonet charge quotes
‘cold clockwork of the stars’
‘king, honour, human dignity, etcetera’
2 remains quotes
‘so we’ve hit this looter a dozen times’
‘his blood-shadow stays on the street’
2 poppies quotes
‘spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias’
‘your playground voice catching on the wind’
2 war photographer quotes
‘Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh.’
‘a stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes’
2 tissue quotes
‘what was paid by a credit card might fly our lives like paper kites’
‘with living tissue, raise a structure never meant to last’
2 emigrée quotes
‘I am branded by an impression an impression of sunlight’
‘a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar’
2 checking out me history
‘dem tell me bout… de cow who jump over de moon’
‘now I checking out me own history I carving out me own identity’
2 kamikaze quotes
‘sunrise…a flask of water…a samurai sword…a shaven head’
‘he must have wondered which had been a better way to die’