a friendship compilation for @sarita-daniele:
Mary Oliver, from West Wind
“Try to remember it always, […] Remember that you and I made this journey, that we went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”
Jhumpa Lahiri, from The Namesake
“Strangely together to our doom we go.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, from Pietà
A Summer’s Tale (1996) dir. Éric Rohmer
“Here’s the truth: friendships between women are often the deepest and most profound love stories, but they are often discussed as if they are ancillary, “bonus” relationships to the truly important ones. Women’s friendships outlast jobs, parents, husbands, boyfriends, lovers, and, sometimes, children. […]
This was a snapshot of what my own deep friendships could lead to: transformation. I saw, on that afternoon, that it’s possible to transcend the limits of your skin in a friendship. That a friend can take you out of the boxes you’ve made for yourself and burn them up. This kind of friendship is not a frivolous connection, a supplementary relationship to the ones we’re taught and told are primary – spouses, children, parents. It is love. […]
Support, salvation, transformation, life: this is what women give to one another when they are true friends, soul friends,”
from Emily Rapp’s essay on the power of female friendship
Anna Swir, from A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry, “The Same Inside,” tr. by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan
“…estás en mí como la música en la garganta del ruiseñor aunque no esté cantando.”
Dulce María Loynaz, from Absolute Solitude; “Poema LVII”
“Answers have too many anchors. Let’s grow up to be chain-cutters. Let’s keeping telling each other stories ‘til we know what’s true.”
Andrea Gibson, from “A Letter to Kelsey, Who Loves Jesus”
“Together we trace out the trail away from doom. There isn’t hope, there is a trail. I follow you.”
Richard Siken, from War of the Foxes
“…the world was made so that we could find each other in it.”
Jeanette Winterson, from Lighthousekeeping
“Don’t allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Preserve your solitude. If the day ever comes when a real friendship is bestowed on you there will be no conflict between your inner solitude and this friendship. On the contrary, that is the infallible sign by which you will know it.”
Simone Weil, from First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge
“You don’t meet the people you love, you recognize them.”
Anna Gavalda, from “Life, Only Better” (tr. Tina Kover)
The Essays of Montaigne, “On friendship”
Nikki Giovanni, from “Resignation”
Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
“Everything scatters as the night wears on: / but you, don’t scatter, will you? / I think we could make this night last forever.”
Dan Chiasson, “Swifts” (Where’s the Moon, There’s the Moon, 2011)
Rowan Williams, Being Disciples
Ernest Biéler, Portraits à Grindelwald (detail), 1906
“Ordinarily I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my ways of praying, as you no doubt have yours. Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.”
Mary Oliver, “How I Go to the Woods”
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