Every Moon Will Be A Moon Of Surrender

'I'll go.' But he doesn't go. He uses the future not the present tense

Niall Williams, History of the Rain

Years later, back from Mexico or South America, he'd admit he was tired of history, of always discovering the ruin by ruining it,

Ada Limón, Cyrus & The Snakes

Sharon Olds, “True Love”

Detail - Angels “Ghent Altarpiece” finished 1432, Jan van Eyck.

Despair recognizes its own ridiculousness

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book

here's Love and Death in the same breath

Niall Williams, History of the Rain

I have dreamed of you so much that you are no longer real.

- Robert Desnos

I was only time flowing through myself.

Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.

Anaïs Nin, Henry and June

Remains of colour on temple columns.