Joshua Short

“This dewdrop world
Is but a dewdrop world
And yet —”
― Kobayashi Issa

“Beauty has no other origin than a wound, unique, different for each person, hidden or visible, that everyone keeps in himself, that he preserves and to which he withdraws when he wants to leave the world for a temporary but profound solitude.”
― Jean Genet, Fragments of the Artwork

“The sound I liked best had nothing noble about it. It was the barking of the dogs, at night, in the clusters of hovels up in the hills, where the stone-cutters lived, like generations of stone-cutters before them. it came down to me where I lay, in the house in the plain, wild and soft, at the limit of earshot, soon weary. The dogs of the valley replied with their gross bay all fangs and jaws and foam...”
― Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies

“Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, and thou no breath at all?”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear