Collected Poems Quotes

“Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,
Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes
Less than themselves.”
― A.S.J. Tessimond, Collected Poems: with Translations from Jacques Prévert

“He is in love with the land that is always over

The next hill and the next, with the bird that is never,

Caught, with the room beyond the looking glass.

He likes the half-hid, the half-heard, the half-lit,

The man in the fog, the road without an ending …”
― A.S.J. Tessimond, The Collected Poems of A.S.J. Tessimond