Michael Staten

“...y a partir de ese golpe el alma en pena del registrador civil contaría su historia, en todo momento con las palmas de sus manos sin dedos apretando las dos mitades de su cabeza para mantener los sesos en su sitio, que el realismo mágico no me es por completo ajeno.”
― Horacio Castellanos Moya, Senselessness

“Will the robotic tree perform
the original miracle, transforming
light into life?”
― Wendell Berry, A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015 together with The Presence of Nature in the Natural World: A Long Conversation

“The pattern for keeping this place
we must take from the woods, if
the land is to thrive in our using
...
---The woods
is a great life of many lives
living upon its many deaths.
It flourishes in the dark crypts
of its decay.
...
---To the teachable
it is a teaching, not a syllabus
of processes and nomenclature
reduced to human understanding, but
the presence of the world being
made, a fabric of interdependent wonders,
moment by moment completed in beauty,
leaf shadows on light leaves moving.”
― Wendell Berry, A Small Porch: Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015 together with The Presence of Nature in the Natural World: A Long Conversation

“Lying was as easy as saying nothing.”
― Téa Obreht, Inland