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“I’VE OBSERVED A TENDENCY—IN the Anglophone world, at least—to lament what is purportedly lost in translation without acknowledging what is undeniably gained.”
― Mithu Sanyal, Identitti

“Do you ever wish to quit the daily comedy of transforming into the I-speaker without abandoning the wilderness of sensing? The sensation isn’t morbid; it is ultimately disinterested.”
― Lisa Robertson, The Baudelaire Fractal

“Reading unfolds like a game called ‘I,’ in public gardens in good weather, in a series of worn-down hotel rooms, in museums in winter, where ‘I’ is the composite figure who is going to write but hasn’t yet.”
― Lisa Robertson, The Baudelaire Fractal

“The moth and the fisheggs are in their place, The suns I see and the suns I cannot see are in their place, The palpable is in its place and the impalpable is in its place.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays