death

Wallace Stevens wrote in “Sunday Morning”:

Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams

And our desires.

–M.N.

When I interviewed Andrea Gibson last year, they shared a line that they loved from a poem by Saul Williams: “only believers in death will die.” When I asked what they took that line to mean, Andrea said: “I don't think that what's real can die. I don't think consciousness can die. And I don't believe love can die. I don't know if there's anything... See more

alex

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.