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“…Then, I said to myself:

'HISTORY IS HUMAN NATURE—;

TO SAY I AM GUILTY

IS TO ACCEPT IMPLICATION

IN THE HUMAN RACE. . .'

—Now, for months and months,
I have found

ANOTHER MAN in me—;

HE is NOT me—; I

am afraid of him …”
― Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

“Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human”
― Jade Song, Chlorine

“The planet turns there without you, beautiful. Exiled by death you cannot touch it. Weird joy to watch postulates

lived out and discarded, something crowed inside us always craving to become something glistening outside us, the relentless planet

showing itself the logic of what is buried inside it. To love existence is to love what is indifferent to you

you think, as you watch it turn there, beautiful. World that can know itself only by world, soon it must colonize and infect the stars.

You are an hypothesis of flesh. What you will teach the stars is constant rage at the constant prospect of not-being.”
― Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

“It’s easy for people who have sacrificed nothing to rationalize their own ordinariness by calling me lucky. But I sacrificed my entire life; I sold it to the abyss. And the abyss gave me art.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!