Then Elijah commanded them, “Seize the prophets of Baal. Don’t let anyone get away!” They seized them, and Elijah had them brought down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered there.1 Kings 18:40 NIV
A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988)
Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.William Gibson, interview in Paris Review Summer 2011