Ashley Campbell

“They might just as well have been throwing pebbles into an empty cave.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“And cranky old Jacques Derrida notwithstanding, we do love our dichotomies.”
― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

“By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your ways though I am--would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them.

Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths."

These are worth it. These are what I have come for.”
― Margaret Atwood, Good Bones

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
― Charles Bukowski