Anthony Mongelluzzo

“Storm sky in August. Gusts of hot wind. Black clouds. Yet in the East is a delicate, transparent band of blue sky. Impossible to look at it. Its presence is a torture for the eyes and for the soul, because beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

“the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.”
― Frank Bidart

“Knowledge has entertained me and it has shaped me and it has failed me. Something in me still starves.”
― Mary Oliver