"A sonnet is a moment's monument." - Dante Gabriel Rossetti -

And those who expected lightning and thunder Are disappointed. And those who expected signs and archangels' trumps Do not believe it is happening now. - "Song on the End of the World" by Czeslaw Milosz -

Everything contains some silence. Noise gets its zest from the small shark's-tooth- shaped fragments of rest angled in it. An hour of city holds maybe a minute of these remnants of a time when silence reigned, compact and dangerous as a shark. - "Sharks' Teeth" by Kay Ryan -

I'm trying to court life's favor, to get into its good graces, to anticipate its whims. I'm always the first to bow, always there where it can see me with my humble, reverent face, soaring on the wings of rapture, falling under waves of wonder. - "Allegro Ma Non Troppo" Wislawa Szymborska -

There's a jolt, quasi-electric, when one of our myths reverts to abstraction. Now we all know every name's Eurydice, briefly returned from blankness and the way back won't bear scrutiny. - "Upper World" by Rae Armantrout -

"Con questa rivoluzione tipografica e questa varietà multicolore di caratteri io mi propongo di raddoppiare la forza espressiva delle parole." - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti -