Charles

“Go blind today already:
eternity is too full of eyes–”
― Paul Celan, Breathturn

“To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations though Friends are if possible an event more fair. ― Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson late 1872.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Dearest,
I feel certain I am going mad again.
we will go through terrible times. And recover. I
begin to hear your voice, and can’t concentrate. So I am
doing what seems
will give me the greatest possible happiness.
I don’t think two people could have been happier with
this disease. I know
that without you I can’t properly feel.
What I want to say is You have
saved me.

Everything has gone from me

but the certainly of your goodness.

— Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, “The Author Writes the First Draft of His Wedding Vows,” an erasure of Virginia Woolf’s suicide letter to her husband, Leonard, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much (Button Poetry July 19, 2016)”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, The Crown Ain't Worth Much

“A horizon is a phenomenon of vision. One cannot look at the horizon; it is simply the point beyond which we cannot see. There is nothing in the horizon itself, however, that limits vision, for the horizon opens onto all that lies beyond itself. What limits vision is rather the incompleteness of that vision. — James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility (Ballantine January 1, 1987) First published January 1, 1986.”
― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility