“Then how,” Dex said, “how does the idea of maybe being meaningless sit well with you?” Mosscap considered. “Because I know that no matter what, I’m wonderful,” it said. There was nothing arrogant about the statement, nothing flippant or brash. It was merely an acknowledgment, a simple truth shared.”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
“Meaning wasn’t in me, meaning wasn’t in another, meaning arose in the encounter between us.”
― The Morning Star
― The Morning Star
“We all temporarily inhabit a planet of microbes, and we are guests here. Eventually they will have the planet to themselves again. They have been around before us and will persist long after us. The question is not how to fit them into our worlds, but how we can fit into theirs.”
― Clean: The New Science of Skin
― Clean: The New Science of Skin
“Writing a poem is like trying to halt a supertanker by holding a dandelion up to it. You can laugh at the frivolity of it. You can ridicule the person for doing such a thing. But—and I’m not saying this makes you one of them—when you laugh at poets, you laugh alongside tyrants. You are standing next to the powerful and the angry and the rich, and you might as well be a bully too, laughing at the weak person cutting snowflakes out of tissue paper. Yes, you are right. But is right everything you want to be?”
― Hitomi
― Hitomi
“We crossed this river then and pulled away, and in the empty fields the lark still spilled praise.”
― To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
― To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface
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