Clay Ruby

“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

“Your body is a hyacinth,
Into which a monk dips his waxy fingers.
Our silence is a black cavern,
From which a soft animal steps at times
And slowly lowers heavy eyelids.
On your temples black dew drips,
The last gold of expired stars”
― Georg Trakl

“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
― Emil Cioran

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
― André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings