“There is rust in my mouth,
the stain of an old kiss.”
"The Lost Lie" from The Divorce Papers
45 Mercy Street (1976)
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poet from the United States 1928–1974Related quotes

“Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel,
Less than the rust that never stained thy sword”
Less Than the Dust
Indian Love Lyrics (aka Garden of Kama) (1901)

“with your name on my mouth
and a kiss that never
broke away from yours.”

“Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
Source: The Poems Of Wilfred Owen

“The ring was all blood-stained… so I put the ring on Jack's finger… and then I kissed his hand…”
The "Camelot" interview (29 November 1963)

“I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.”

Amber Benson at Toronto Trek, July 6, 2002 http://voyageur.idic.ca/Benson02.htm