Compass of Affection Quotes

“I turned and beheld seven rows of plasma screens, each bearing seven vivid scenes, each flickering, each pulsing with a light revealing distant terrors, conflagrations, sufferings - and all thereby brought so close, and all thereby kept far away.”
― Scott Cairns, Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected

“He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.”
― Scott Cairns, Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected

“Centuries of dire prophecy have taught us all to be, well, unconvinced. And there have been decades, entire scores of years when, to be frank, wholesale destruction didn’t sound so bad, considering. You remember, we were all disappointed. That the world never ended meant we had to get out of bed after all...”
― Scott Cairns, Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected