"Well, Terry, it sure as shit ain't sad."

"damn them, i say
i will stand in my own pain
& sing my own song"
-alta

or

"only connect"
- em forster

"she figured out that the only way
to keep from being frozen was to
stay in motion, and long ago converted
most of her flesh into liquid. now when she
smells danger, she spills herself all over,
like gasoline, and lights it,
she leaves the taste of salt and iron
under your tongue, but you don't mind
the common woman is as common
as the reddest wine"
-judy grahn

Under the sun and under the moon Embers sailed steadily on until at last he came within sight of another shore. And there on the beach, he found a gryphon. He was building a marvelous sandcastle. "There's no need to tell me," said the gryphon, "I know the tide will come in and wash it away, but there is so much lovely sand on the beach, and I can't think of anything else to do with it, can you?"
- john patience

But you write on, and are your own best Gibbon,
And read on, this monumental subject being
The decline and fall of almost everything.
-kelly cherry

"I write emotional algebra" - Anaïs Nin