Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything

- Sarah Manguso

The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets.

- Sarah Manguso

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to the…

- Sarah Manguso

The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know.

- Sarah Manguso

Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.

- Sarah Manguso

This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.

- Sarah Manguso

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

- Sarah Manguso

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into…

- Sarah Manguso

The only thing I've consistently been interested in in the last twenty-five years is writing very short texts. That continues to interest me as a pro…

- Sarah Manguso