Like Words

“This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”

“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”

I want to talk about what happened without mentioning how much it hurt. There has to be a way. To care for the wounds without reopening them. To name the pain without inviting it back into me.

“You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life.”

“We only see the violence of change…Are we aware of how much violence goes on just to keep things the way they are?”

“Sometimes I really believe it, that I am going to save my life a little.”

“There is only one question: how to love this world.”

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”