Yue

“The gentle downward slope gets steeper
and imperceptibly becomes an abyss.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, New Collected Poems

“Everyone seeks their look. Since it is no longer possible to base any claim on one's own existence, there is nothing for it but to perform an appearing act without concerning oneself with being - or even with being seen. So it is not: I exist, I am here! but rather: I am visible, I am an image -look! look! This is not even narcissism, merely an extraversion without depth, a sort of self-promot­ing ingenuousness whereby everyone becomes the manager of their own appearance.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“You drank some darkness
and became visible.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Half-Finished Heaven

“The calendar is full but the future is blank.”
― Tomas Tranströmer, The Deleted World