It rhymes and does not confirm

for Gerard Manley Hopkins

"Off the brown brink."

Over smog colored
embankments,

the same split
wings
aflutter,

the exhaustive, glancing
perusal.

It flashes
but doesn't gather.

It rhymes and does not
confirm.

Rae Armantrout, "Day"

E tudo se orientava pela sombra potencial do passado - uma sombra de meio-dia, que você não vê, mas sabe se guardar em segredo nas coisas, pronta para começar a vazar pelo chão assim que o planeta virar um pouquinho de perfil.

Adriana Lisboa, Azul-Corvo 

Still alive inside the sentence

Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be dead," you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar. And so was God, because as soon as there's a past tense, there has to be a past before the past, and you keep going back in time until you get to I don't know, and that's what God is. 

Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

But we do language

"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."

Toni Morrison

"Desire is the consciousness of a certain kind of emptiness that has to be filled."

Laurie Anderson