Vinegar Hill Quotes

“And although the search is for completion, It is not death; it opens rather Into brightness, soundlessness.”
― Colm Tóibín, Vinegar Hill: Poems

“have their two weak hearts in one Weak heart, their eyes merged in my gaze. His slow smile, her soft side-glance Oversee my days.”
― Colm Tóibín, Vinegar Hill: Poems

“FACE Drawn chalk-yellow out of dust Keeping us free from sin. There are shadows, sublime inventions While I listen and say that I too Have seen visions, skin crack, The fist banging helplessly on a shut Door. Locked hollow spaces Left there after the war.”
― Colm Tóibín, Vinegar Hill: Poems

“CURVES Within the body is its own sweet sound, It starts as echo and fades fast. In the bricked-up burden of bone Two old notes repeat, both fierce. The city curves. The brightest will Is open. I have been here for years. There are lights and wires; there is Some beauty. It is almost enough.”
― Colm Tóibín, Vinegar Hill: Poems