Marianne Boruch Quotes (15 quotes)

“What a puzzle death becomes, rainy afternoons
to put who we were
back together.”
― Marianne Boruch, Cadaver, Speak

tags: cadaver-speak, death, marianne-boruch, poetry, puzzle, rainy, reassemble

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“The moon, how it
cannot know.”
― Marianne Boruch, Cadaver, Speak

tags: cadaver-speak, marianne-boruch, moon, poetry

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“We lose names of things. Then the things
they named.”
― Marianne Boruch, Cadaver, Speak

tags: cadaver-speak, forgetting, loss, marianne-boruch, memory, poetry, sad

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“Even night is a gesture, sleep
a cog in its wheel of stars. Lie down.
At some point you lie down.”
― Marianne Boruch, Cadaver, Speak

tags: cadaver-speak, command, descriptive, inevitability, lie-down, marianne-boruch, night, poetry, sleep, stars

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“And the door, what of

the hinge, little cry that won't uncry itself.”
― Marianne Boruch, Cadaver, Speak

tags: cadaver-speak, cry, last-lines, marianne-boruch, poetry, poignant

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“Future or past, it's all we ever think about.”
― Marianne Boruch, Cadaver, Speak

tags: cadaver-speak, future, marianne-boruch, not-present, past, thinking

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“Every childhood is strange.”
― Marianne Boruch, Cadaver, Speak

tags: cadaver-speak, childhood, marianne-boruch, poetry, strange

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“I can see where this
is going and I don't want to. I don't.”
― Marianne Boruch, Cadaver, Speak

tags: cadaver-speak, denial, foreshadowing, marianne-boruch, poetry

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“But too much rain
can translate anything to unspeakable.”
― Marianne Boruch, Cadaver, Speak

tags: cadaver-speak, marianne-boruch, mood, poetry, rain, unspeakable

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“Not all of us get to be ghosts.”
― Marianne Boruch, Cadaver, Speak

tags: cadaver-speak, ghosts, left-out, marianne-boruch, poetry, sad

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“the heart-shaped digitalis to
unstrange a rhythm raving,
sweet blood and slow blood through
the muscled dark.”
― Marianne Boruch, Cadaver, Speak

tags: blood, body, cadaver-speak, descriptive, figurative-language, flower, marianne-boruch, poetry

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“We never
want the same.”
― Marianne Boruch, Cadaver, Speak

tags: cadaver-speak, cross-purposes, differences, marianne-boruch, poetry, want

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“There's time, this lasting forever.”
― Marianne Boruch, Cadaver, Speak

tags: cadaver-speak, forever, immortality, marianne-boruch, poetry, time

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“Fate behind the pillars
where something fell.”
― Marianne Boruch, Cadaver, Speak

tags: ambiguous, cadaver-speak, fate, hidden, hidden-from-sight, marianne-boruch, mysterious, poetry

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“It's how words
come apart in a dream.
And then you're awake.”
― Marianne Boruch, Cadaver, Speak

tags: awake, cadaver-speak, dream, marianne-boruch, poetry, words

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