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"With My Back to the World" Quotes
"With My Back to the World" by Victoria Chang is a collection of poems that meditates on grief, identity, and artistic creation through the lens of painter Agnes Martin’s life and work.
subjects & themes | Published in 2024
Quotes
I keep walking as if my body were a question that cannot be answered.
Silence has a sound, and I am learning its language.
Each day, I try to paint myself out of the frame, but the world keeps painting me back in.
The past is a room I keep returning to, though I have lost the key.
I am afraid of the world’s edges, but more afraid of its center.
Loneliness is a mirror I cannot turn away from.
Love is a shadow that moves even when I am still.
Grief is the color I use when I have no other paint.
The body remembers what the mind tries to forget.
Every window is both a beginning and an end.