Joe Bousquet Quotes & Sayings

My wound existed before; I was born to embody it. — Joe Bousquet

Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks. — Joe Bousquet

No one sees me changing, but who sees me? I am my own hiding place. — Joe Bousquet

Yet a mysterious gate lay open within her shadow; and all my flesh was aware of black pathways and hovels and the silence one observes when the dead are near. — Joe Bousquet

My wound existed before me;
I was born to embody it. — Joe Bousquet

A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything. — Joe Bousquet

Tonight the thoughts of the dead are turning back to the earth. — Joe Bousquet

An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo.
— Joe Bousquet

I gazed upon the earth and saw that a body, in its tender faithlessness, had located it in the sky. A splendid scarf of blood, looming above the abyss. — Joe Bousquet