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‘[O]ne day, I too would die and … I would prop myself up and remain upright, looking straight ahead until the last, and, when death triumphed over my gaze, I would be like a proud monument raised with hatred in the face of silence’. — Jacqueline Harman, The Mistress of Silence

‘Why do all the English poems end with a little laugh?’ — Franco Fortini

‘[T]he notion that one day the red dawn will indeed break over Clapham is the one thing that keeps me going.’ — Angela Carter.

‘…an earth of asymptotic approach to which we beckon, bite of dust…’ — Nathaniel Mackey.

It’s the ultimate capitalist dream, to slip into the quiet of death, & still make a profit.

‘Every no a yes to not-this.’ — Mira Mattar, Yes I Am A Destroyer

‘Rule 1: The drawing is the discord.’ — Gwen John