Mia

“LII.
For, if you think about it,
all first hatred of strangers

contains this idea of death,

of your death which will one day walk up to you
in just such a fashion.
Buon giorno, death will say.

LIII.
What is the holiness of conversation?

It is
to master death.”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

“Sometimes he had the look in his eyes of a Delphic priestess on the hunt for visions.”
― Fleur Jaeggy

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

“Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest...”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh