Squandering the Blue Quotes

“I am learning how to mother. . . . I am distilling entire moral universes into single lines.”
― Kate Braverman, Squandering the Blue: Stories

“It is always a poet's winter.”
― Kate Braverman, Squandering the Blue: Stories

“It is all stone upon stone, one at a time, relentless as cells. . . . And stone is the DNA of the exterior world.”
― Kate Braverman, Squandering the Blue: Stories

“Suddenly she wants to fall to her knees and pray for the poets. She imagines them with immaculate ravaged faces, with necklaces of ransacked moons, with teeth which are black stubs. Poets are collections of unused crescents and bandages, confused images and terrible departing.”
― Kate Braverman, Squandering the Blue: Stories