“He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.”
Scott Cairns“He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.”
Scott Cairns, Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected“May our afflictions be few, but may we learn not to squander them.”
Scott Cairns, The End of Suffering: Finding Purpose in Pain“I turned and beheld seven rows of plasma screens, each bearing seven vivid scenes, each flickering, each pulsing with a light revealing distant terrors, conflagrations, sufferings - and all thereby brought so close, and all thereby kept far away.”
Scott Cairns, Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected