“and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and maybe that’s why my good paintings, yes, all good paintings, have something to do with what I, what Christians, call The Holy Spirit, because all good art has this spirit, good pictures, good poems, good music, and what makes it good is not the material, not matter, and it’s not the content, the idea, the thought, no, what makes it good is just this unity of matter and form and soul that becomes spirit, that’s what culture is, probably, he says, it’s probably just one person being like another person that creates a culture, for example wearing a suit and tie, while what art is, yes, art is everyone just being like themselves, and totally themselves”
― Septology
― Septology
“In hidden orchards the stone fruit ripened so fast that what we didn't eat was given to the animals, and so like chimps like finches like gilas we glutted on plums so ripe they split if looked at, cherries and blackberries staining our sheets. We distilled summer meads heady with anise and yogurt, and watered fields with the barrels' dregs. To the tidal boom of an underground aquarium, I cut a sturgeon nose to slit and ransacked its body for that other fruit, pure caviar. I looked to Aida for the salt. Sweaty, unshowered, her pubis its own rough ocean. Saline, the meat of her as she bucked against my tongue, split open, gleaming.”
― Land of Milk and Honey
― Land of Milk and Honey
“Time passed and my childhood grew thin and flat, paperlike. It was tired and threadbare, and in low moments it didn’t look like it would last until I was grown up.”
― Childhood
― Childhood
“Me?
I am that I am what I will always be—
and they? They are what I allow them to be,
a lone lily at the edge of the cliff
begging for rain. And at the cliff’s edge,
I come”
―
I am that I am what I will always be—
and they? They are what I allow them to be,
a lone lily at the edge of the cliff
begging for rain. And at the cliff’s edge,
I come”
―
“I look at you and I can't focus, the whole world shimmers.”
― Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation
― Cyrano de Bergerac: in a free adaptation
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