He's got all that mind, all that inner country he keeps going around in, mines and craters, caverns and dead ends.
Niall Williams, History of the Rain
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.
Willa Cather, Not Under Forty
The first thing you ever did was cry.
- Heather Christle, The Crying Book
“Tell me what you know about the body, and I will tell you how it must turn against itself.”
— Seam: ‘Interview with a Birangona’ by Tarfia Faizullah
Years later, back from Mexico or South America, he'd admit he was tired of history, of always discovering the ruin by ruining it,
Ada Limón, Cyrus & The Snakes
- take it all / - it’s too little
- Agata Tuszyńska, tr. Regina Grol
All the bells say: too late.
John Berryman, Dream Song 29
the whole world around me expanding and contracting, visually and viscerally heaving.
- Heather Christle, The Crying Book
from behind a / pillar / of unarrived / moments
- Zofia Zarębianka, tr. Regina Grol