“This heart is black
like blood that has dried”
Here Come the Vultures, The Human Contradiction (2014)
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Charlotte Wessels 3
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The Fascination Of What's Difficult http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1619/
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
Context: The fascination of what's difficult
Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent
Spontaneous joy and natural content
Out of my heart. There's something ails our colt
That must, as if it had not holy blood
Nor on Olympus leaped from cloud to cloud,
Shiver under the lash, strain, sweat and jolt
As though it dragged road-metal. My curse on plays
That have to be set up in fifty ways,
On the day's war with every knave and dolt,
Theatre business, management of men.
I swear before the dawn comes round again
I'll find the stable and pull out the bolt.
“The capitalist has no heart, but harpoon him in the pocketbook and you will draw blood.”
Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and The Struggle for the American Dream, Bruce Watson. Viking-Penguin, 2005; pg. 93.
“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.”
A former chief of Abombi to Conan
"The Scarlet Citadel" (1933)
“… the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.”
Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall (2001)