Are There Two Ways Of Knowing The World? A Submissive And A Devouring Way. They End Up Roughly The Same

I am only as much as I'm not.

Dagna Ślepowrońska, tr. Regina Grol

From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.

Arundhati Roy, The End of Imagination

the one that teaches water to become ice, helps grief remember how to become tears.

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book

since you were unable to take all the bad you were given learn now to fight with your nails for every inch of ground under your foot

Anna Czekanowicz, A Polish Mother tr. Regina Grol

but you, in this wilderness alone You've got to live to take the next bite

Dagna Ślepowrońska, tr. Regina Grol

- take it all / - it’s too little

- Agata Tuszyńska, tr. Regina Grol

My father bore a burden of impossible ambition. He wanted all things to be better than they were, beginning with himself and ending with this world. Maybe this was because he was a poet. Maybe all poets are doomed to disappointment.

Niall Williams, History of the Rain

We are the repetitions of the pieces of each other

Garous Abdolmalekian, Game tr. Ahmed Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey

The first rule of war is sympathy with the enemy.

Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

the equable but confused light of a summer’s morning in which everything is seen but nothing is seen distinctly

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando