quotes

• exposure quotes

  'our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knive us...'

  'watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire'

  'but nothing happens' repeated or questions at the end of stanzas 'is that why we are dying?'
• charge of light brigade quotes

  'all in the valley of death rode the six hundred'

  'volleyed and thundered ;stormed at with shot and shell'

  'into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell'
• storm on island quotes

  'nor are there trees/which might prove company when it blows full/blast:'

  'but no: when it begins, the flung spray hits The very windows, spits like a tame cat/ turned savage'

  'we just sit tight while wind dives/ and strafes invisibly'
• emigree quotes

  'but my memory of it is sunlight clear...I am told, comes to the mildest city'

  'it may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants but i am branded by an impression of sunlight'

  'they accuse me of absence, they circle me. They accuse me of being dark in their free city'
• ozymandias quotes

  'whose frown and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command'

  'my name is ozymandias, King of Kings ; look on my works, ye mighty and despair!'

  'of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.'
• tissue quotes

  'pages smoothed and stroked and turned transparent with attention'

  'fine slips from grocery shops...fly our lives like paper kites'
• london kites

  'near where the chartered thames does flow'

  'and mark in every face i meet marks of weakness, marks of woe'

  'mind forged manacles'
• comh quotes

  'dem tell me'

  'bandage up me eye with me own history Blind me to my own identity'

  'mountain dream/fire-woman struggle hopeful stream/to freedom river'
• prelude quotes

  'one summer evening (led by her)'

  'a huge peak, black and huge, as if with voluntary power instinct'

  'unswerving line'-->'with trembling oars I turned'
• kamikaze quotes

  'her father embarked at sunrise with a flask of water, a samurai sword in the cockpit'

  'he must have looked far down/at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting/on a green-blue translucent sea'

  'and the neighbours too, they treated him as though he no longer existed'
• war photographer quotes

  'spools of suffering set out in ordered rows'

  'the only light is red and softly glows'

  'all flesh is grass'
• poppies quotes

  'before you left I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals, spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer'

  '...to the front door, threw it open, the world overflowing like a treasure chest'

  'later a single dove flew from the pear tree, and this is where it has led me, skirting the church yard walls'
• Remains quotes

  'on another occasion, we got sent out to tackle looters raiding a bank'

  'well myself and somebody else and somebody else are all of the same mind, so all three of us open fire'

  'his blood-shadow stays on the street, and out on patrol I walk right over it week after week'
• bayonet charge quotes

  'stumbling across a field of clods towards a green hedge that dazzled with rifle fire, hearing bullets smacking the belly out of the air'

  'the patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest'

  'in what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations was he the hand pointing that second?'