“We walked on the river bank in a cold wind, under a grey sky. We both agreed that life seen without illusion, is a ghastly affair.”— V.WOOLF
“do not abandon me, even if I have abandoned myself.”— Alejandra Pizarnik, from ‘Written in Anahuac (Talitha)’, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 (trans. Yvette Siegert)
“I have come far to have found nothing or to have found that what was found was only to be lost, lost finally in that absence whose trace is silence.”— Cid Corman, “I Have Come Far to Have Found Nothing,” AEGIS: Selected Poems 1970-1980 (Barrytown/Station Hill Press, 2010)
“How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it’s some kind of murder?”— Richard Siken, from “Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light”
“…the ability to bloom in sweet pain.”— Thomas Mann, tr. by Willard R. Trask, from “The Black Swan,” wr. c. 1954
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“The sky is slashed to bits with the light of scars.”— Osip Mandelstam, tr. by Bernard Meares, from “Sky of Evening,” c. 1937
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
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“But that alone, my speaking, is not even the point; I wanted to be silent with you too.”— Paul Celan, in a letter to Ingeborg Bachmann (Paris, 31 October 1957)
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“You started young, right? What is your advice for young people?”
FINALLY!
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“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”— Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
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“and all that I was before / is out there in the darkness looking for / me”— Annelyse Gelman, from “Hassan’s Rumpus Room,” Heck Land: The Resorted Text
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“You are in every line I have ever read.”— Charles Dickens, from Great Expectations (Penguin Classics, 2002)
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moodboards | cities | F L O R E N C E, Italy
“To see the sun sink down, drowned on his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature.” - Mark Twain
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