Joë Bousquet Quotes

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

Tonight the thoughts of the dead are turning back to the earth.

Joë Bousquet

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

Joë Bousquet

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

Joë Bousquet