shadows,
do they get darker
when they overlap?

- Film: Perfect Days (Wim Wenders)

I do not have a steady sense of life’s meaning. I keep losing it, and having to re-achieve it, again and again.

I can only re-achieve it when I am inspired by things or events or people, when I get a sense of the immense intricacy and mystery.

- Oliver Sacks

the world is made up
of many worlds

some are connected

some are not

- Film: Perfect Days (Wim Wenders)

but how could you live
and have no story to tell?

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

i needed to be
somewhere different

maybe i needed to be
someone different, too

- Heather Davis, The Clearing

i prefer the absurdity of writing poetry
to the absurdity of not writing poetry

- Danie Marais (Woordfees Awards acceptance speech, Stellenbosch 2024)

everything has a voice
you just have to listen

- film: “All the light we cannot see”