Elizabeth

“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

“The soul has a story that has a shape that almost no one
sees. No, no one ever does.”
― Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems

“He loved, that is, the process of coming to know… In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown… It is an erotic space. When the mind reaches out to know, the space of desire opens.”
― Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet

“Writers tend to come out of families in which it is understood that language is powerful”
― George Saunders