“Traditions brings continuity to one’s existence, but this sort of continuity is precisely what has been increasingly lostthroughout modernity.”
“Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive.”
“I continue to exist, and he continues to exist, but we don't exist together. Days continue to pass no matter who I exist with, though.”
“Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart… Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates. And it does this by its continual labor of reassembling what has been scattered.”
“No matter how offensive she's been to me, she continues to act as if she has some sort of God-given right to keep coming back for more favors.”
“What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.”