Elizabeth Smart Quotes - Page 2

• Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Coats, Cold, Hungry

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• The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Lying, Long, Lizards

  Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage

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• I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal nurse. I see it crouching inflexibly in a corner of the ceiling. It comes down in geometrical diagonal like lightning.It says, I remain, I AM, I shall never cease to be: your memory will grow a deathly glaze: you will forget, you will fade out, but I cannot be undone.Thus every quarter hour it puts the taste of death in my mouth, and shows me, but not gently, how I go whoring after oblivion.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Memories, Nurse, Facts

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• If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines -- to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Oil, Roots, Machines

  Elizabeth Smart, Alice Van Wart (1991). “Necessary secrets: the journals of Elizabeth Smart”, Grafton Books

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• You have to be slightly blind to believe in any cause.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Believe, Causes, Blind

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• What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Flower, Moving, Writing

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• I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Desire, Obsession, Menagerie

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• April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Spring, Moon, Bird

  Elizabeth Smart, Alice Van Wart (1991). “Necessary secrets: the journals of Elizabeth Smart”, Grafton Books

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• You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Break Off, Looks, Red

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• It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Bigs, Not Interested, Big Things

  Elizabeth Smart, Alice Van Wart (1991). “Necessary secrets: the journals of Elizabeth Smart”, Grafton Books

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