#on voice

[luthienne]

Anne Carson, The Gender of Sound

[redstoneofaja]

funniest screenshot i ever took of texas wrestling smungus on video call from a while back

[luthienne]

Naomi Shihab Nye

[luthienne]

“They’ve a saying there for the heartsick. They say: However fair still to look / at, he bears a / thorn in his throat. They believe the throat is a sieve woven of wounds both / incurred and / escaped from. By this logic all speech becomes, unsparingly, remembrance: / we sing, and / we are betrayed.... How much / was true?”

— Carl Phillips, from Pastoral: Poems; “Would-Be-Everlasting”

[luthienne]

Jane Hirshfield, from After; “To Speech”

[luthienne]

But often I could not talk. Language left me. I was in the place before I had any language. The abandoned place.

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

[luthienne]

My inner voice was silent, not really offended, not bored or impatient either. It was simply silent and left me,

Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays (tr. Jan van Heurck)