Sean Davidson

“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“This is what I think, but I don't say the words because the counterpoint of yes and no, love and hate, fear and longing, the need to tear down and the need to build up are synonymous and one.”
― Robert Vivian