Frank Stanford Quotes

#1. -I have dreamed of escape, a forever

-to burn your suicide notes she read in Braille

-and the stars of dawn's trousseau

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#2. Baby one night somebody
Going to strike a match on a tombstone
And read your name.

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#3. before men could speak they enjoyed confounding another with signs
they enjoyed this as much as a mirror enjoys an image
as much as the evening like a ship enjoys a sapphire grave

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#4. I'll just bleed so the stars can have something dark to shine in

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#5. tonight the gars on trees are swords in the hands of knights
the stars are like twenty-seven dancing russians and the wind
is

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#6. It wasn't a dream it was a flood

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#7. No one knows how to love anybody's trouble.

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#8. I saw the black seam of your stocking
Running down the side of the mountain like a creek
I put the whiskey down and listened

from "Blue Yodel of the Desperado

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#9. because none of you know what you want follow me
because I'm not going anywhere
I'll just bleed so the stars can have something dark to shine in
look at my legs I am the Nijinsky of dreams

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#10. I don't believe in tame poetry ... Poetry busts guts.

Frank Stanford