“God don't lie…. And these are his words…. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.”
Cormac McCarthy book Blood Meridian
Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter IX, Judge Holden
“He whom we anatomized
‘whose words we gathered as pleasant flowers
and thought on his wit and how neatly he described things’
speaks
to us, hatching marrow,
broody all night over the bones of a deadman.”
from "Villon" (1930)
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