The Last Nostalgia: Poems, 1982–1990 QUOTES

1 " And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye and the letting go. "

― Joe Bolton , The Last Nostalgia: Poems, 1982–1990

3 " The best days of summer are the days of summer gone. "

― Joe Bolton , The Last Nostalgia: Poems, 1982–1990

5 " And if poetry is a bond between
Two hearts, it is a bond too frail:
That night words failed, I, too, was lost—
To whiskey, memory, a photograph. "

― Joe Bolton , The Last Nostalgia: Poems, 1982–1990

7 " There's nothing in this warm, vegetal dusk that is not beautiful or that will last. "

― Joe Bolton , The Last Nostalgia: Poems, 1982–1990