Joe Caliva

“My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings.”
― Edvard Munch

“To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

“In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. ”
― Stéphane Mallarmé

“It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.”
― Stephen Mallarme