Snippets from Kathleen Graber

 "I want to whisper into his ear

something that feels like knowledge:

                                                                   Once upon a time, there was nothing

& one day, there will be nothing again. This is the faraway place

 

to which his tiny weight calls me. If he could understand the words. I think,

he would know what I mean, having only just sprung himself

                                                                                                               from that fine sea."

-Dead Man by Kathleen Graber

"We are, instead, our own vatic visions, bumbling prophets. Our sense of ourselves

as invented as film." 

-Dead Man by Kathleen Graber

"In that book, a novel

by Emily Brontë, the land is violent & unjust & we are violent

& unjust upon it. Even worse, our greatest passions

change nothing at all. "

-The Synthetic A Priori By Kathleen Graber

"Tell yourself

it’s simple: this is where it’s been heading all along. Tell yourself

something you have no faith in has already begun to occur."

-The Synthetic A Priori by Kathleen Graber