“Dearest,
although everything has happened,
nothing has happened.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
"Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)
Life Force (1992) Source: [Kakutani, Michiko, 1992-02-07, Books of The Times; Fallout From a Multitude of Liaisons, https://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/07/books/books-of-the-times-fallout-from-a-multitude-of-liaisons.html, New York Times, 2020-02-12]
“Dearest,
although everything has happened,
nothing has happened.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
"Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)
Juan Ramón Jimenéz (1881–1958) Spanish poet
"Oceans", as translated by Robert Bly; quoted in Opening Our Moral Eye : Essays, Talks & Poems Embracing Creativity & Community (1996) by Mary Caroline Richards.
“Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.”
Philip Roth (1933–2018) American novelist
“Even here, nothing ever happens; and nothing ever happens to it.”
Asger Jorn (1914–1973) Danish artist
1949 - 1958, Speech to the Penguins' (1949)
Brian Bates (1944) British academic
The Way of the Wyrd : Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer (1983)
“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy