Virginia

“In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?”
― Natalie Diaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

“Speech is the twin of my vision . . . . it is unequal to measure itself.”
― Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

“I don't want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.”
― Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

“It is very cold
walking into the long scraped April wind.
At this time of the year there is no sunset
just some movements inside the light and then as sinking away.”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God