The Unmemntioable Quotes

“For if thought that exceeds what has yet been
thought were not possible, the infinite would not be possible, and self/
itself or subjectivity its intermediary transcendence/ incendiary.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“Today, I refuse to be pinned down to an identity. Right away, I want to betray it.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“Some people come from nowhere.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“In us they are the sign of the whole.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“When there was no one left, it became nowhere. There were no more letters after the w.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“To know any thing, time must go backward.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“Unfortunately, censure has cut history up.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“A mother is the unmemntioable boundary
that can never come fully clear.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“That there is a before-speaking, that we did
not always speak.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“Thanks to Lana Turner, Eleven Eleven, The Nation, LIT Magazine (USA), Critical Quarterly (UK), Beautiful Outlaw Press, no press, The Capilano Review, cv2, Rhubarb and Centre A Gallery (Canada).”
― Erin Mouré, The Unmemntioable

“Experience appears in this world as a birth. A birth which takes as assistants sky and earth and the water and wood and mountains and the clouds. Experience does not come out of the mind or imagination but from a deep and irrecusable need. It rents the entire person.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“Look up for the stars. Where light meets earth, the land rolls back to ache of verges but do not with it turn.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“We who are lost love you to in each.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“There were cries, screech , it weep.
The rest weep from we, who emerge.
There was one wall of weeping. And we have parted with you.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“mine is an ongoing subsection more passive than any passivity.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“In one ear the anthropologist (daughter): how are you? meaning: stay alive.
In the other the artist (mother): I don't know. meaning: prepare to die, and transmit.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“On the date before the date, time reverses.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“Numeration comes from 1 and 2, not 0 and 1. The 2 is silence, unanswerable without the 1.
How: a means. Are: exist. You: subject, other?”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still casts its sound on all who sleep there and enters their throats.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“this responsibility for the death of my (m)other, is
a significance so irreducible that it is from it that the meaning of
death may be understood.

Responsibility here is no dictate but all the gravity of love of the
neighbour upon which the congenital meaning of that word love
rests and which every literary form of its sublimation or profanation
(I, je, eu) presupposes.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“is speech a subject's very constitution and assembly, which then makes experience possible.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“[Take me in your arms] a way of seeing then.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“this was passed to
writing and the content of a writing burned can no longer be
handed back to memory, for writing abolishes memory and as what
was written can no longer be passed down, it has no Author in the old
sense: no ability to act as proxy to, to verify on behalf of.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable