Frank Ashe

“My friend, I went to the market and bought the Dark One.
You claim by night, I claim by day.
Actually I was beating a drum all the time I was buying him.
You say I gave too much; I say too little.
Actually, I put him on a scale before I bought him.
What I paid was my social body, my town body, my family body, and all my inherited jewels.
Mirabai says: The Dark One is my husband now.
Be with me when I lie down; you promised me this in an earlier life.”
― Mirabai, Mirabai: Ecstatic Poems

“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
― Mia Couto

“To know nothing is to know the peace of Buddha.

- The Story of Seijuro in Himeji”
― Saikaku Ihara, Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-century Japan

“I had an idea of symmetry Bordering on theology”
― Ariana Reines, A Sand Book