Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
I sit, with all my theories, metaphors, and equations, Shakespeare and Milton, Barthes, Du Fu, and Homer, masters of death who can’t, at last, teach me how to touch my dead.
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
I love this mix of drama where life is lost, erosion is sad, mass extinction is terrifying; there's a creative beauty in this process of death and rebirth where the present becomes the compost of the future.
Anthony Van Den Bossche • «Writing as pollinating», a conversation with Alice Bucknell
person beside a person inside a life. That’s called parataxis. That’s called the future.
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
these towns I have come to know only by what leaves them, myself included. The
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
