October 2010
4 posts
The light from the proper direction, a house lit up by it - then the person will recognize this place. But everything that came before, and after, and why this place, and why this light, this house, this wind?
- Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
Distance looks our way; the godwits vanish towards another summer and no one knows where he will lie down at night.
- Janet Frame
July 2010
3 posts
Someday, the bird calls from its leafless tree very far away, in the land where there is no sun and no moon, I will be back, and then you will find me merciful.
- Margaret Atwood
February 2010
10 posts
Hymeneal still it lay, the thing so soon to be changed, between me and all the forgotten horrors of joy.
- Beckett, Watt
Give me an example of space: My two hands [held together] as one.
- The Mahabharata
So scream and bleed your way along the road,
Until your lungs, heart, and veins are empty
Of grief, and deny your father’s ghost
His last chance to be your warrior-thief.
- Sherman Alexie
Above our saddle come to rest Toes hang from the branch A horse that waits for a rider’s death Never keep riding.
- W. Oldham, Stable Will
Who is like You, O Lord, among the silent, remaining silent through the suffering of His children?
- Nelly Sachs
August 2009
4 posts
She had learned long ago that gentle smiles were vanity only, not blessings or forgiveness… the person best suited to smile a gentle smile was a madman.
- Janet Frame, The Adaptable Man
It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.
- Harold Brodkey
