| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 54286 |
| QUOTATION: | I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Elizabeth Smart (1913–1986), Canadian author, poet. By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, pt. 1 (1945). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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