Fiorella

“You were saved because you were the first.
You were saved because you were the last.
Alone. With others.
On the right. The left.
Because it was raining. Because of the shade.
Because the day was sunny.”
― Wislawa Szymborska, Poems New and Selected 1957-1997

“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain