Invisible Strings Quotes

“And now from the distance of time when stories are over one in a frame on a dresser one left to remember you left with nowhere to leave to a world where nothing can vanish can vanish from inside the trees or above them the moon blameless as I was as you were call it weather call it something that lives outside measure a lifetime apart a lifetime together are neither forever nor never a lifetime together a lifetime apart one person turns into another forgive past forgive future departure a story continues beyond its erasure we were two oars dividing one water and time cannot sever”
― Kristie Frederick Daugherty, Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift

“And now from the distance of time Jane Hirshfield And now from the distance of time when stories are over one in a frame on a dresser one left to remember you left with nowhere to leave to a world where nothing can vanish can vanish from inside the trees or above them the moon blameless as I was as you were call it weather call it something that lives outside measure a lifetime apart a lifetime together are neither forever nor never a lifetime together a lifetime apart one person turns into another forgive past forgive future departure a story continues beyond its erasure we were two oars dividing one water and time cannot sever”
― Kristie Frederick Daugherty, Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift

“Swift does arrive, vibrant, over and over again, dropping lines like, “Did you hear my covert narcissism / I disguise like altruism / like some kind of congressman” in a pop song, and everyone sings along while googling for definitions—it’s a real thing, how Swift increases the lexicon of her fans. She also moves brilliantly within and between the songs on her albums. Her songs talk to one another, reshape themselves, and get recontextualized as Swift reinvents herself. “Hits Different,” the last track on Midnights (The Til Dawn Edition), ends with, “Have they come to take me away?” Meanwhile, The Tortured Poets Department begins with the song “Fortnight” and the line “I was supposed to be sent away / But they forgot to come and get me.” And just like that, Swift transforms the space between Midnights and The Tortured Poets Department from silence to an audible pause, as if continuing a life libretto. There is always a link.”
― Kristie Frederick Daugherty, Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift