Can Lit Quotes

“When the last leaf falls,
what will die within us?”
― Sheniz Janmohamed, Firesmoke

“Since we had always sky about,
when we had eagles they flew out
leaving no shadow bigger then wrens'
to trouble our most aeromantic hens.
Too busy bridging loneliness to be alone
we hacked in ties what Emily etched in bone.
We French, we English, never lost our civil war,
Endure it still, a bloodless civil bore;
No wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted.
It's only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted.”
― Earle Birney

“All the things she couldn’t say, the things no one wanted to hear.”
― Spencer Gordon, Cosmo