Marianne Boruch > Quotes

“There’s smitten and there’s smite.”
― Marianne Boruch

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“And the door, what of

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