Poem Quotes

Question 1

All 12 Originally quotes

Answer 1

1. “red room which fell through the fields”
2. “one of them bawling”
3. “there, there”
4. “the vacant rooms”
5. “eyes of a blind toy, holding its paw”
6. “All childhood is an emigration”
7. “Your accent wrong.”
8. “My parents’ anxiety stirred like a loose tooth”
9. “you forget, or don’t recall, or change”
10. “feel only a skelf of shame”
11. “my tongue shedding its skin like a snake”
12. “Originally? And I hesitate”

Question 2

All 10 Mrs Tilscher’s Class quotes

Answer 2

1. “chalky Pyramids rubbed into dust”
2. “The laugh of a bell swung by a running child.”
3. “This was better than home”
4. “The classroom glowed like a sweetshop.”
5. “changed from commas into exclamation marks.”
6. “Stared at your parents, appalled, when you got back home.”
7. “as the sky split open, into a thunderstorm”
8. “heavy, sexy sky”
9. “Mrs Tilscher loved you.”
10. “You asked her how you were born and Mrs Tilschers smiled, then turned away.”

Question 3

All 12 The Way My Mother Speaks quotes

Answer 3

1. “I say her phrases to myself”
2. “shallows of my breath”
3. “restful shapes moving”
4. “The day and ever. The day and ever”
5. “The train this slow evening”
6. “too blue swapped for a cool grey”
7. “Nothing is silent. Nothing is not silent”
8. “I am happy and sad.”
9. “like a child who stood at the end of summer”
10. “dipped a net”
11. “green erotic pond”
12. “I am homesick, free, in love with the way my mother speaks”

Question 4

All 11 War Photographer quotes

Answer 4

1. “spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”
2. “as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a Mass”
3. “All flesh is grass”
4. “He has a job to do”
5. “Rural England”
6. “ordinary pain”
7. “running children in a nightmare heat.”
8. “Something is happening”
9. “half formed ghost”
10. “pick out five or six”
11. “prick with tears”

Question 5

All 9 Valentine quotes

Answer 5

1. “It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.”
2. “like the careful undressing of love.”
3. “It will blind you with tears”
4. “wobbling photo of grief”
5. “I am trying to be truthful.”
6. “Not a cute card of a kissogram”
7. “fierce kiss will stay on your lips”
8. “shrink to a wedding ring”
9. “Lethal.”

Question 6

All 12 Mrs Midas quotes

Answer 6

1. “Sat in his palm like a lightbulb. On”
2. “He sat in the chair like a king on a burnished throne.”
3. “he picked up the glass, goblet, golden chailice, drank”
4. “He sank to his knees.”
5. “Look, we all have wishes; granted, but who has wishes granted?”
6. “Seperate beds.”
7. “You see, we were passionate then, in those halcyon days.”
8. “I feared his honeyed embrace, the kiss that would turn my lips to a work of art.”
9. “My dream-milk burned in my breasts.”
10. “Pure selfishness.”
11. “I miss most, even now, his hands, his warm hands on my skin, his touch.”
12. “The woman who married the fool who wished for gold.