Soefae

“These are roads to take when you think of your country”
― Muriel Rukeyser, The Book of the Dead

“That’s all poetry is, really: something odd, coming out. Normal speech, overflowed. A failed attempt to do justice to the world. The poet proves that language is inadequate by throwing herself at the fence of language and being bound by it. Poetry is the resultant bulging of the fence.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“This immediately reminds me of a thought I had about you months ago, during that miserably frenzied period when I thought you weren’t coming back: sat on the subway and musing over all the various adaptations of you that existed in other people’s anecdotes…a great composite of identities, none of them ever entirely capturing the whole. I’d wondered what they would have talked about if they’d sat down together – all those versions of you – whether they would have recognized each other if they’d met in the street.”
― MissDisoriental, The Shape of Me Will Always Be You

“Everything, I realized, is a choice. And spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row