Arlechinisme

Kate Baer, from And Yet: Poems; “40”

— Natalie Diaz, “Cloud Watching”

“Where do words come from? They come from the dead. We inherit them. Borrow them. Use them for a time to bring the dead to life.”

— Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“All the dead voices. They make a noise like wings. Like leaves. Like sand. Like leaves.”

— Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs?”

— Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“The sentence is adorned with all of its dead.” 

— Jacques Derrida, Cinders

“There are no people in what I’ve written. Only ghosts.”

– Shahrazad al-Khalij

"I have an entire forest living inside of me and you have carved your initials into every tree."

“Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling”