Inspired by Maggie Nelson’ s Bluets:
‘36. Goethe describes blue as a lively colour, but one devoid of gladness. ‘It may be said to disturb rather than enliven.’ Is to be in love with blue, then, to be in love with disturbance? and what kind of madness is it anyway, to be in love something constitutionally incapable of loving you back?
37. Are you sure - one would like to ask - that it cannot love you back?’