We say the naked eye

as if the eye could be clothed, as if it isn’t the world

that refuses to undress unless we turn our backs.

- Maggie Smith

Is it too late except to say too late and hear

the whole world take a rain check?

I worry it is.

- Maggie Smith

What we know of ourselves

gets compressed, layered. Remembering

is an anniversary; every minute, a commemoration

of being, or thinking—or its opposite,

a strip of negatives.

- Maggie Smith

Do we know anymore what it is to be human?

I’ve stopped knowing what it is to be human.

- Maggie Smith

You do not know what wars are going on

down there where the spirit meets the bone.

- Miller Williams

What matters is what remains not said, not said.

Which is what long silences are for.

- Miller Williams

This is to say we remember. Not that remembering saves us.

Not that remembering brings anything usable back.

This is to say that we never have understood how to say this.

Out of our long unbelief what do we say to belief?

- J. Bailey Hutchinson

Criatura, por que você oscila tanto?

Há um vento em cada lado

e nenhum sabe de onde sopra.

- AR

Considerar a natureza do homem um pecado é escarnecer da natureza. Puni-lo por um crime que ele cometeu antes de nascer é escarnecer da justiça.

- Ayn Rand, A revolta de Atlas, John Galt

Aquilo que vocês denominam alma ou espírito é a sua consciência, e o que denominam livre arbítrio é a liberdade que sua mente tem de pensar

- Ayn Rand, A revolta de Atlas, John Galt

I'm not even a wrinkle queen.

- Mr. Zamboni, American Horror Story, S13E04

The Arch

AR

What was that that collapsed in me?

The support.

Was it the heart?

Anatomy won't do.

Beliefs, then?

How can you not know? It came in waves.

CNN

Declaro que a vida é ótima, 

a realidade múltipla, 

os nossos sentidos fracos.

- Adélia Prado

Eu olho meu olho fixo.

- Adélia Prado

Ó Pai, duro é este discurso, quem poderá entendê-lo?

- Adélia Prado