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“It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.”
― Nox
― Nox
“I am a restrained person.
Otherwise my heart would race past my
tongue to pour out everything.
Instead I mumble,
I gnaw myself.
I lose hope.
And my mind is burning.”
― An Oresteia
Otherwise my heart would race past my
tongue to pour out everything.
Instead I mumble,
I gnaw myself.
I lose hope.
And my mind is burning.”
― An Oresteia
“A wound gives off its own light
surgeons say.
If all the lamps in the house were turned out
you could dress this wound
by what shines from it.”
― The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
surgeons say.
If all the lamps in the house were turned out
you could dress this wound
by what shines from it.”
― The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
“It was the hour when snow goes blue
and streetlights come on and a hare may
pause on the tree line as still as a word in a book.”
― Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
and streetlights come on and a hare may
pause on the tree line as still as a word in a book.”
― Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
“I prayed and fasted. I read the mystics. I studied the martyrs. I began to think I was someone thirsting for God.”
― Antigonick
― Antigonick
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