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Midnight Lantern Quotes
Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems
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Tess Gallagher45 ratings, 4.07 average rating, 6 reviews
Midnight Lantern Quotes
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“That’s what poems are for,
unlivable love."
epigraph to “In Lilac-Light”
― Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems
unlivable love."
epigraph to “In Lilac-Light”
― Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems
“Ours is another luster,
as if a soul had died outside the world
and divided itself in two
— Tess Gallagher, from “I Don’t Know You,” Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2011)”
― Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems
as if a soul had died outside the world
and divided itself in two
— Tess Gallagher, from “I Don’t Know You,” Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2011)”
― Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems
“Heart, it doesn’t matter. We were only sleeping
to let the poem know where to find us.
Now let it rain. Let the avalanche
of hours we’ve spent apart have their say. Only they
have the power to make these words
bear my heartprint as they fall outside the dream.
— Tess Gallagher, from “Because the Dream Is My Tenderest Arm,” Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2011)”
― Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems
to let the poem know where to find us.
Now let it rain. Let the avalanche
of hours we’ve spent apart have their say. Only they
have the power to make these words
bear my heartprint as they fall outside the dream.
— Tess Gallagher, from “Because the Dream Is My Tenderest Arm,” Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2011)”
― Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems
“Under Stars
The sleep of this night deepens
because I have walked coatless from the house
carrying the white envelope.
All night it will say one name
in its little tin house by the roadside.
I have raised the metal flag
so its shadow under the roadlamp
leaves an imprint on the rain-heavy bushes.
Now I will walk back
thinking of the few lights still on
in the town a mile away.
In the yellowed light of a kitchen
the millworker has finished his coffee,
his wife has laid out the white slices of bread
on the counter. Now while the bed they have left
is still warm, I will think of you, you
who are so far away
you have caused me to look up at the stars.
Tonight they have not moved
from childhood, those games played after dark.
Again I walk into the wet grass
toward the starry voices. Again, I
am the found one, intimate, returned
by all I touch on the way.”
― Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems
The sleep of this night deepens
because I have walked coatless from the house
carrying the white envelope.
All night it will say one name
in its little tin house by the roadside.
I have raised the metal flag
so its shadow under the roadlamp
leaves an imprint on the rain-heavy bushes.
Now I will walk back
thinking of the few lights still on
in the town a mile away.
In the yellowed light of a kitchen
the millworker has finished his coffee,
his wife has laid out the white slices of bread
on the counter. Now while the bed they have left
is still warm, I will think of you, you
who are so far away
you have caused me to look up at the stars.
Tonight they have not moved
from childhood, those games played after dark.
Again I walk into the wet grass
toward the starry voices. Again, I
am the found one, intimate, returned
by all I touch on the way.”
― Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems
“Heart, you are
only the shell of a confessed desire
wondering what to do next.
— Tess Gallagher, from “Because the Dream is My Tenderest Arm,” Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2011)”
― Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems
only the shell of a confessed desire
wondering what to do next.
— Tess Gallagher, from “Because the Dream is My Tenderest Arm,” Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2011)”
― Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems
