Quotes from Timothy Liu

I think of how the mystics read by the light of their own bodies. What a world of darkness that must have been to read by the flaming hearts that turn into heaps of ash on the altar, how everything in the end is made equal by the wind. — Timothy Liu, from "Vox Angelica," The New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois University, 2000

The children set out for school, no books in their packs, a sycamore they have ignored all summer aflame like the gilted-edged pages of a Bible magnified under glass.