Kathryn Nuernberger Quotes

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To have a soul is to flutter about spoiling the milk and destabilizing the script of how we talk to each other.

Kathryn Nuernberger

After Descartes' daughter died,
he took to the sea. They say he went
so mad with grief he remade her
as automaton. A wind-up cog and lever
elegy hidden in the cargo hold.

Kathryn Nuernberger

Grief, the sailors said, is a hex
and contagion and it will draw the wind
down from the sails.

Kathryn Nuernberger

Human rituals tend to involve putting things together
or taking them apart.

Kathryn Nuernberger

I'm sometimes accused of living outside of reality, because I can't be bothered to call a spider exterminator or because I don't have a cell phone.

Kathryn Nuernberger

Like most everything, the history of hot air balloons is a history of sex and tragic death.

Kathryn Nuernberger