"If someone asks, Is anyone alive? Break, your, head, open, and, show, your, ten, ta, cle."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Kim Hyesoon

#Alive Quotes #Break Quotes #Shows Quotes

“I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon.”
“Our body is a cenacle, a monstrance: through its crystal the world should see God.”
“Artâ€”the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.”
“I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.”
“I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night.”
“Is a lie really a lie if it is honestly believed?”

Source : Anthony Ryan (2014). “Tower Lord”, p.310, Penguin
“O it is a happy thing to feel ourselves helpless and naught, for then the presence of God is felt to wrap us about so lovingly! Everlasting, infinite, almighty, these are the words that strengthen us with speaking them.”
“Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning.”

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