I turn away—even if what I want most is to tell you everything.
Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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I turn away—even if what I want most is to tell you everything.
Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
To say we were 'in love', that vague weakened phrase, cannot express it. We loved each other, we lived in each other, through each other, by each other. We were each other.
Iris Murdoch, from 'The Sea, the Sea'
If the horror is inside you how do you get it out?
Gut Symmetries, Jeanette Winterson (via salemwitchtrials)
But there is something of a lighthousekeeper in me, and I am not afraid of solitude, nor of nature in her wildness.
Jeanette Winterson, from Frankissstein. (via xshayarsha)
Ilyas Abu Shabaka, tr. by Adnan Haydar and Michael Beard, from Modern Arabic Poetry: an anthology; “You or I?”
I look out and the sun like your hand on my face
is warm, and for a moment I think this is glorious, this is what forgiveness feels like.
— Rafael Campo, from “California”
“He was this close to me. He held his hands to describe The closeness. It seemed for a moment He could almost touch his friend, Could speak to him as he were there; Enkidu. Enkidu. But suddenly the silence Was deeper than before In a place where they had never been Together. He sat down on the ground and wept: Enkidu. Enkidu.”
— Epic of Gilgamesh, tr. Herbert Mason
Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae in Medieval Sensibilities: A History of Emotions in the Middle Ages by Damien Boquet and Piroska Nagy (transl. Robert Shaw)
La diosa arrodillada (Roberto Gavaldón, 1947)
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
“Do you love him? I don’t know. I believe he is my fate.”
— Anne Carson, excerpt of “TV Men: Akhmatova (Treatment for a Script); AKHMATOVA’S MARRIAGE (1910) HAS LITTLE EFFECT ON HER”, in Men in the Off Hours
A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, Roland Barthes
A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, Roland Barthes
Sara Teasdale, from ‘Old Love and New’
My God, so distant and close:
— If I come to hate you, it will mean I have finally begun to believe in You.
— Margarita Karapanou, Rien ne va Plus (translated by Karen Emmerich)
Margaret Atwood, from “There Are Better Ways of Doing This”