Seeing the Body Quotes

“And what is memory if not a bewitching math of error & correction?”
― Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Seeing the Body: Poems

“We break mirrors inside of each other to see again.”
― Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Seeing the Body: Poems

“In every window some cloud, some sky, some reflection of happiness streaked bitterly with beauty & ache.”
― Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Seeing the Body: Poems

“I pull joy from the ledges of my mistakes, pull the muse by her wrists through broken windows, use shards of glass to cast rainbows, the birth of self-respect quickening.”
― Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Seeing the Body: Poems

“I remember her voice like a horn I never want to pull out of my heart.”
― Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Seeing the Body: Poems