Maeve

“In the mornings, she walks outside, where once they walked together. Wears his jacket, his scarf, his mittens. The snow knee-deep in places, but it doesn't stop her. Before, she carried the two of them through worse.
She goes because it is the only place where she can bear his absence. Because the cold, the treacherous path: they make their own demands, distract her from her secret.”
― Daniel Mason, North Woods

“It is only during the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.”
― Erich Auerbach

“...this is the kind of straitjacket that I worry most about. It isn't praise, it is a command. When they compliment the cook on his potatoes, its just an order to cook the same thing again.”
― Daniel Mason, North Woods

“Poetry seldom occurs in poems. Poetry only occurs when words cause action.”
― Raoul Vaneigem