Noah Thellman

“Lord let me suffer much and then die Let me walk through silence and leave nothing behind not even fear Make the world continue let the ocean kiss the sand just as before Let the grass stay green so that the frogs can hide in it so that someone can bury his face in it and sob out his love Make the day rise brightly as if there were no more pain And let my poem stand clear as a windowpane bumped by a bumblebee’s head tr. by Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak”
― Christian Wiman, Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair

“We are not in the world, we become with the world; we become by contemplating it. Everything is vision, becoming. We become universes.”
― Félix Guattari, What Is Philosophy?

“My God my bright abyss
into which all my longing will not go
once more I come to the edge of all I know
and believing nothing believe in this.”
― Christian Wiman, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

“The fear of death distresses a man with a guilty conscience, but the man with a good witness within himself longs for death as for life.’ Count no man truly wise who, because of this temporal life, enslaves his mind to timidity and fear.”
― Isaac the Syrian, Ascetical Homilies of St. Isaac the Syrian