Noël Z

“What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.”
― John Shelby Spong

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”
― Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

“I won’t lie this plague of gratitude is hard bear / I was comfortable in my native pessimism / not this spun-sugar fantasy / last night I made actual cake / there were no worms in the flour no bloody whirls in the eggs / I always wanted to be a saint / but I thought I’d be one of the miserable ones / sainted by pain / burnt alive inside a brazen bull / instead I weep openly at obnoxious beauty / cello music comes in from blocks away and I lose it completely / is there a word for these fits of incomprehensible delight / I said it last night when my mouth was full of cake”
― Kaveh Akbar