"Bluets" Quotes
A deeply personal exploration of love, loss, and the color blue.
poetry | 98 pages | Published in 2009
Quotes
1. Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.
2. But in my case the color has always been there; I am the one who has changed.
3. I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness.
4. If I could, I would write nothing but love poems.
5. I have been trying, for some time now, not to simply love more, but to love more wisely.
6. I have been trying to persuade myself that this is a good and noble thing to do.
7. It is not a new story, but an old one, prefigured in myth and sung by poets for centuries.
8. I have been trying to find beauty in my pain.
9. Perhaps the most important thing I can say about my marriage is that I hated it.
10. I never see myself in the landscape of my desire.
