Joanna Newsom Short Quotes

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Driven through by her own sword,
summer died last night, alone.

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It is too short —
the day we are born,
we commence with our dying.

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And a thimble's worth of milky moon
Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.

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And the love we hold, and the love we spurn,
Will never grow cold, only taciturn

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Picking through your pocket lining, well what is this?
Scrap of sassafras, eh Sisyphus?

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And, when the bulbs do flash,
as bright as morning,
the crowd keeps on gathering
like an electric storm.

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I killed my dinner
with karate
kicked him in the face, taste the body, shallow work is the work that I do.

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A feather of a hawk was bound
Bound around my neck
A poultice made of fig
The eager little vultures pecked

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By the time you read this
I will be so far away
Daddy longlegs, how in the world
Am I to be expected to stay?

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While yonder, wild and blue,
the wild blue yonder looms.
'Till we are wracked with rheum,
by roads, by songs entombed.

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This is the song for Baby Birch.
I will never know you.
And at the back of what we've done,
there is that knowledge of you.

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In this life, who did you love,
beneath the drifting ashes,
beneath the sheeting banks of air
that barrenly bore our rations?

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We sailed away on a winter's day
With fate as malleable as clay
But ships are fallible, I say
And the nautical, as all things, fades.

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Coats of bouclé, jacquard and cashmere;
cartouche and tweed, all silver shot —
and everything that could remind you
of how easy I was not.

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Hung from the underbelly of the Earth
While the stars skid away below
Gormless and brakeless; gravel-loose
Falling silent as gavels in the snow.

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We broke our hearts,
in the war between
St. George and the dragon,
but both, in equal part,
are welcome to come along.
I'm inviting everyone.

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I do as I please.
Now I'm on my knees.
Your skin is something that I stir into my tea.
And I am watching you
and you are starry, starry, starry...

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I may have changed, it's hard to gauge
Time won't account for how I've aged
Would that I could tie your lying tongue
Who says that leaving keeps you young.

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The tap of hangers,
swaying in the closet —
unburdened hooks
and empty drawers —
and everywhere I tried to love you
is yours again,
and only yours.

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And though our bones, they may break
And our souls separate,
why the long face?
And though our bodies recoil
From the grip of the soil,
why the long face?

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But it can make you feel over, and old
(Lord, you know it's a shame),
when I only want for you to pull over,
and hold me,
till I can't remember my own name.

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And, for the sake of that pit of snakes,
for whom did you allay your shyness,
and spend all your mercy, and madness, and grace,
in a day, beneath the bending cypress?

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Wolf-spider, crouch in your funnel nest.
If I knew you, once,
now I know you less.
In the sinking sand,
where we've come to rest,
have I had a hand in your loneliness?

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Now her coat drags through the water,
Bagging, with a life's-worth of hunger, limitless minnows
In the magnetic embrace,
Balletic and glacial, of Bear's insatiable shadow.

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And if you come and see me,
you will upset the order.
You cannot come and see me,
for I set myself apart.
But when you come and see me,
in California,
you cross the border of my heart.

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