Rosemary Tonks Quotes

British poet (1928-2014)

Rosemary Tonks (17 October 1928 – 15 April 2014) is an English poet. She published her adult poetry from about 1960 to 1972 and subsequently disappeared.

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— All this sitting about in cafés to calm down
Simply wears me out. And their idea of literature!
The idiotic cut of the stanzas; the novels, full up, gross. I have lived it, and I know too much.
My café nerves are breaking me
With black, exhausting information.

Thinking we were safe-insanity!
We went in to make love. All the same
Idiots to trust the little hotel bedroom.
Then in the gloom...
...And who does not know that pair of shutters
With all the awkward hook on them
All screeching whispers?