Pasty Hag

“A work of art encountered as a work of art is an experience, not a statement or an answer to a question. Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing _in_ the world, not just a text or commentary _on_ the world.”
― Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation and Other Essays

“How privileged are you if you first require hope in order to act?”
― Johanna Hedva, How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom

“EVERYONE WHO IS born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick,” Susan Sontag wrote in Illness as Metaphor. “Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

“So I won't hang around in my hospital shift,
repeating The Black Mass and all of it.
I say Live, Live because of the sun,
the dream, the excitable gift.”
― Anne Sexton, Live or Die