

“Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting.”
― Making Love with the Land: Essays
― Making Love with the Land: Essays

“The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state knows this.
We always begin at the end.”
― Making Love with the Land: Essays
We always begin at the end.”
― Making Love with the Land: Essays

“Combien de personnes faut-il pour faire un livre? Combien d'êtres chacune de ces personnes contient-elle à son tour, combien de ´Ú²¹²Ô³Ùô³¾±ðs? Et si c'étaient les ´Ú²¹²Ô³Ùô³¾±ðs qui écrivaient? Quand aujourd'hui je dis "je", qu'est-ce qui parle?”
― Les ombres blanches
― Les ombres blanches
“She wanted her poems to translate all she saw and heard and felt, and not be any earthly thing. What she aimed for was evanescence like the brilliance of lightning, the flash of truth, or a transport so swift it felt like flight.”
― These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
― These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson

“Les livres sont des ´Ú²¹²Ô³Ùô³¾±ðs. Les lettres ne valent guère mieux, qui se construisent à même l'absence de ceux qu'on aime. Même les plus belles, les plus tendres, les plus émouvantes ne cessent de chuchoter : je ne suis pas là .”
― Les ombres blanches
― Les ombres blanches
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