The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You Quotes

“tonight the gars on trees are swords in the hands of knights
the stars are like twenty-seven dancing russians and the wind
is”
― Frank Stanford, The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You

“my life I love it
in the dark
under the water of my shadow music
my form
and substance lonely and blue as ever

— Frank Stanford, The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You (Lost Roads Publishers, 2000)”
― Frank Stanford, The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You

“There Is the Effect of Moonlight very poetic and the first time he used the telephone he yelled the reason being so he said because my friend is so very far away and if you think I'm going to tell you what else I saw you're crazy as hell”
― Frank Stanford, The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You

“[L]ook at all those silver dollars a lying out there in that mud hole he said / them are mussels shining in the moonlight I said / boy when you going to learn about that moon why it ain’t no such a thing / like a cargo that shifts from one side to the other in a ghost ship / that is how my dreams change their course / I have nothing to do with it — Frank Stanford, lines 4980-85, from The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You (Lost Roads Publishers, 2000)”
― Frank Stanford, The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You

“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”
― Frank Stanford, The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You