April Polubiec

“And if we never slept together or otherwise 'realized' our relationship, I would leave Spain with this gorgeous possibility intact, and in my memory could always ponder the relationship I might have had in the flattering light of the subjunctive.”
― Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station

“I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former”
― Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station

“Now, think of a square, a living, beautiful square. And imagine that it must tell you about itself, about its life. You understand, a square would scarcely ever think of telling you that all its four angles are equal: this has become so natural, so ordinary to it that it's simply no longer consciously aware of it. And so with me: I find myself continually in this square's position.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“The voices and laughter and birds and wind and traffic combined and separated gently.”
― Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station