Shahriar

“I can’t feel with my fingers. I don’t think with my mind.
It’s just that I’m looking, but don’t see with my eyes.
Now I’m happy to be here, to contain what I’ve lost.
By thinking this thought, two parallels cross.”
― Michael Gira

“My poems only come when I have almost lost the ability to utter a word. To speak, in a way, of the unspeakable.”
― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“From Camus’ notebooks … “an intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“At my current station in the life cycle I’m increasingly aware that this (or any) effort might be my last. I believe these songs contain something of that sense of finality and the urgency of countering it… My gratitude for your support in funding the recordings and my outsized appetite for sound knows no bounds. At certain times the urge to just give up has been quite seductive, but I’m reminded that there’s a core group of people that care about the work and receive meaning from it, and that knowledge helps to propel me forward.”
― Michael Gira