Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power (1978)

"That self-connection shared is a measure of the joy which I know myself to be capable of feeling, a reminder of my capacity for feeling. And that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be lived within the knowledge that such satisfaction is possible, and does not have to be called marriage, nor god, nor an afterlife...." [Sister Outsider, 57]

Matteo Pasquinelli, The Eye of the master (2023)

"Abstraction always operates within given material constraints through them: symbols, tools, techniques, and technologies are conceived and realised in relation to limited resources of matter, energy, space, time, and so on..." [38]

Georges Perec, Life A User's Manual (1978)

"She was neither a miser nor a spendthrift, but simply indifferent to money. In order to become the businesswoman she'd decided to be, she accepted without any apparent effort a radical transformation of her habits, of her wardrobe, of her style of life. [111]"

Walt Whitman, Song of Myself (1881)

"For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. [sect. 1]"

"And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else,
And the jay in the woods never studied the gamut, but trills pretty well to me,
And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me. [sect. 13]"

Enjoyed reading aloud in the car on the way to Michigan for Christmas break...

Would definitely recommend Christopher Merrill and Ed Folsom's edition (2016, University of Iowa Press), which reprints the 1881 version of the epic, and is the most detailed section-by-section reading of Song of Myself published to date.