Joë Bousquet Quotes

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

  Joë Bousquet

  Echoes, Wind, Body

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• My wound existed before me;
  I was born to embody it.

  Joë Bousquet

  Born, Wounds

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

  Joë Bousquet

  Stars, Wind, Silence

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• 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.

  Joë Bousquet

  Blood, Sky, Saws

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

  Joë Bousquet

  Night, Sea, Reminiscing

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