Kelly

“Do not be frightened. Death is instantaneous and passes in a flash. I know, for I have just died with the girl. Forgive my dying. It was unavoidable.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“I am dissatisfied with my poetry
I am dissatisfied with my sex life
I am dissatisfied with the angels I believe in”
― Jack Spicer, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry

“Poetry leads to the same place as all forms of eroticism — to the blending and fusion of separate objects. It leads us to eternity, it leads us to death, and through death to continuity. Poetry is eternity; the sun matched with the sea.”
― Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality

“The only response
to a child’s grave is
to lie down before it and play dead.”
― Bill Knott