mess up the space

A poet who liked to mess up the page with broken sentences and floating words and phrases.

midden of broken things

A fragment gathers with others of its kind.

breakage

The lines like toppled statuary, fallen, broken off heads and limbs, spilled, beautiful fragments.

broken pieces

As we manipulate everyday words, we forget that they are fragments of ancient and eternal stories, that we are building our houses with broken pieces of sculptures and ruined statues of gods as the barbarians did.

—Bruno Schulz's "Letters and Other Writings," Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz, a Biographical Portrait (Norton, 2002) by Jerzy Ficowski, translated by Theodosia Robertson.

See Art of Bruno Schulz.

broken beauty

A test for beauty: Could it be beautiful broken into pieces…or fallen into a state of ruin?