25 quotes found
“To believe in moments makes life endless, no?”
“I wonder how much space I take up, if a thought can take up secondary space.”
“Art allows us to die over and over without actually dying. Only we must catch our breath.”
“Whenever she felt at home, there always seemed to be love floating about on the edges of things.”
“A word is a word is another word more beautiful because of the former and the next and the circle and sun they create.”
“I should think a poet president would be able to create a delectable confluence of various spaces. A poet is most political.”
“Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucumber, the shape of a sunbeam, the endearing, velvety tilt of a peach, in just such a way that she ...”
“The little queen lived in a world where the sky swirled like the sea and nothing was itself for very long. Everything looked to be in brushstrokes.”
“Is it not so presumptuous to write a word? To write a word is to give the word a space all of its own. You build a home for it and hope it can find itself at home among all the other words. Nestled...”
“I would like to do more in appreciating the mindset of the child. Maybe it has something to do with taking ourselves very seriously and with great disregard, as well as having a healthy does of awe...”
“Cutting down a wall, the wall sawyer could feel the tension in a home ease and something windy rush in circles round her feet. It was addictive, each a sweet victory of art. The tumbling motion of ...”
“I let quiet shape what I say, then realize there is nothing that can be fully saidthe reason for gestures and eyes and art. Always something waiting, wanting, expectant, yet also curiously not.”
“Maybe all you need to do is find the heartbeat in everything. And if writing is living, the discovery of the beat of a heart, then when you read me, you are living by my side.”
“If I could simply place the various parts of myself into the night sky to occasionally glance up and behold myselfmaybe in the end I am only hoping to vicariously soak up some starlight.”
“I will treat language with resigned delight, embrace it like unrequited love, offer words to you with a kind of secret shame, for I know that sometimes there is such a thing as too much language, a...”
“Every once in a while, and it happens only several times a year if I am lucky, I will feel astonishment that I exist, that I am sitting, standing, perceiving, and that others perceive me...It is pr...”
“The most perfect solitude must entail the absence of all beings, but it must also tremble with the light of life. For example, a perfect solitude may find itself haunted by lives born of the imagin...”
“The wall sawyer did not ask the little queen what she did. This was because in the little queens kingdom, people only volunteered their doings if they wanted to, and they never asked others their d...”
“The little queens mother and father had said that she would live on, for a long time, and that her tears would magnify the life around her forever more, but they had not explained how she should go...”
“I recommend the French beret, for it gives the impression of just the right soft toughness, a veritable wave of sophisticated brain matter. It is the kind of hat that inspires a person to grow into...”
“Let us take our tongues and stick them out and waggle them in the wind. Let us walk, loving, let us walk and love, walking along, loving.”
