Elizabeth

“To forget oneself, even for an instant, in order to identify with a stranger and fully recognize him, defies necessity. And this moment of defiance, however small and discreet...liberates a power that cannot be measured at any scale in the natural world. This defiance is not a means, and it has no end.”
― John Berger

“Doubt kindles our suspicious intelligence and at the same time extinguishes our capacity for love.”
― Simon Critchley, Mysticism

“How does distance look?” is a simple direct question. It extends from a spaceless within to the edge of what can be loved. It depends on light.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

“Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red