Violet Woods

“Ultramarine is not, of course, holy in and of itself. (What is?) It had to be made holy, by the wicked logic that renders the expensive sacred.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“New Ending.
All over the world the beautiful red breezes went on blowing hand
in hand.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

“What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?”
― Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

“This is a simple story, but it spooks me, insofar as it reminds me that the eye is simply a recorder, with or without our will. Perhaps the same could be said of the heart. But whether there is a violence at work here remains undecided.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets