Brian

“Whoever digs at verse must renounce all idols; he has to break with everything.
He cannot have truth for his horizon, or the future as his element, for he has no right to hope. He
has, on the contrary, to despair. Whoever delves into verse dies; he encounters his death as an
abyss.”
― Maurice Blanchot

“Eroticism is the brink of the abyss. I'm leaning out over deranged horror (at this point my eyes roll back in my head). The abyss is the foundation of the possible. We're brought to the edge of the same abyss by uncontrolled laughter or ecstasy. From this comes a "questioning" of everything possible. This is the stage of rupture, of letting go of things, of looking forward to death.”
― Georges Bataille, Guilty

“For the palace was but emptiness, a hole in a labyrinth of lines, a skyward precipice.”
― Paul Willems, The Cathedral of Mist

“Miracles belong only to the moment, and live on only in memory.”
― Paul Willems, The Cathedral of Mist