Something ineffable about the past

  Above all...I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
   -Anselm Kiefer
 
Image: Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Box of Visions, 1938
Title: Susan Sontag

We live submerged

    Words carry oceans on their small backs.
 
    -Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
 
Image: Graciela Iturbide, Eyes to Fly With?, Coyoacan, Mexico, 1991
Title: Evangelista Torricelli

Interior landscapes

    Malebranche was right: we are not our own light.

-Flannery O'Connor, “Good Country People”

Image: Celestial map, found
Title: Thomas Bernhard