Michael Bamford

“I’m capable of staying sober unless anything happens.”
― Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“even here, even at the beginning of love,
her hand leaving his face makes
an image of departure
and they think
they are free to overlook
this sadness.”
― Louise Glück, The Wild Iris

“Yūgen's hallmarks [are] mystery and depth .. . . it is characterized by sadness, unspoken connotations, imagery of a veiled, monochromatic nature, and an atmosphere of haunting beauty.”
― Jane Hirshfield, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

“We are nothing but lies, duplicity, contradiction, and we hide and disguise ourselves from ourselves.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées