“I do not write every day, I read every day, think every day, work in the garden every day, and recognize in nature the same slow complicity. The same inevitability. The moment will arrive, always it does, it can be predicted but it cannot be demanded. I do not think of this as inspiration. I think of it as readiness.”
“Fairy tales — the proper kind, those original Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen tales I recall from my Eastern European childhood, unsanitized by censorship and unsweetened by American retellings — affirm what children intuitively know to be true but are gradually taught to forget, then to dread: that the terrible and the terrific spring from the same source, and that what grants life its beauty and magic is not the absence of terror and tumult but the grace and elegance with which we navigate the gauntlet.”
anne carson, plainwater: essays and poetry / raw (2016) / lara williams, supper club / nathan biehl - cover photograph for nightbitch, 2020 / noah b by michiyo yanagihara for metalmagazine.eu 2016 / stella lucia by bettina rheims for dazed magazine 2017 / kim sang in by j. dukhwa for ceci korea june 2016 / jenefer shute, life-size / guillermo lorca garcia-huidobro - the banquet, 2013-14 / alex lemon, another last day / samantha margherita - stem peels & pits collaboration with stephanie gonot, 2019 / anonymous - tantalus, 17th c. / ovid tr. henry t. riley, the story of erysichthon from metamorphoses / queen of the damned (2002) / jennifer’s body (2009) / margaret atwood, you are happy
