Donovan Baldwin > Donovan's Quotes

“I am the void
That reflects your beauty,
Pure like a never-written poem.”
― Monica Laura Râpeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

“When I first met you
A thousand songs ago
I didn't know that you were
So many sunrises away.

(from the book "The Void that Reflects Your Beauty")”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu

“Our souls were dancing
to the same sunrise,
Seen from two different sides
of time.”
― Monica Laura Râpeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

“Tears turned into colors before being wept,
An innocent rain in wild growth,
Speaking a language
That you'll understand someday, late.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

“My love belongs to the sunrise,
As only sunrise knows
The ephemeral beauty of eternity.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

“wait for me in a song!
if you’ve come to dinner,
release your dogs,
pour the wine into the sky,
for all the longing ghosts
of the grapes (...)”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, Orbul de la Cină

“C10 (or the king's carolers – from student times)

on the side stairway, we gather in the evening, many
the cold cement steps welcome us
as if we were the king's carolers
we have mulled wine and dry snacks
the orange guitar stretches and warps in the candlelight
we take another drag from the cigarette, nibble on sticks and salty biscuits
happiness pricks our veins with Burmese nails

One floor below, behind the door 'Mr. Blues - Don't Disturb'
the tasty rot of jazz caresses our toes
We sin in thought, our minds dangling from the railing

later, the Serbs come to sing with us
Golden-haired like gods from a bombed country
we scratch the wall with our nails, don’t know what to say
they bring us wafers with fruits and chocolate
wrapped in green foil

the second evening we gather again on the side stairway
with the same mulled wine and dry snacks
and the same us

the old rockers hanging heavy on the guitar’s body
at the midnight office.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, Orbul de la Cină

“I don't know why
time
is dancing now
before us
soft and sandy
like the poets' women.
it wants me in all songs.
maybe you'd take me in for a moment
to your Andalusia
where today
no one has died.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, Orbul de la Cină

“someone was singing
and he was alone.
for us, you wrote yourself
in small letters
so we wouldn’t know.

from the bitterness of blood,
from the nights of the eagles,
that music began,
but we couldn’t hear it.

the grapes are calling
their wine,
the stranger. (...)”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, Orbul de la Cină

“the old ones
hold their kiss
in stones.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, Orbul de la Cină

“I am the dance where halves dissolve,
The stillness where things evolve.
I am a drop, and the ocean too,
A song unsung, yet heard in you.
I am the hunter and the prey,
The night that swallows
the birth of day.
Who am I?”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, Mind-Bending Riddles Inspired by Philosophy | With Answers and Explanations | Philosophical Riddles | Philosophy in Rhymes : From Plato, Socrates, Lao Tzu, the Stoics, Epicurus, Buddhism, Rumi

“I defy darkness, and I define it.
I lead you to the infinite.
I guide you out
of what you think you are,
Cut through the veils,
I take you to the stars.
Who am I?”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, Mind-Bending Riddles Inspired by Philosophy | With Answers and Explanations | Philosophical Riddles | Philosophy in Rhymes : From Plato, Socrates, Lao Tzu, the Stoics, Epicurus, Buddhism, Rumi

“I am you,
but I don’t have your name.
I hold you,
though you think you hold me.
I wander,
yet I’m always home.
I’m only one, but not alone.
Who am I?”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, Mind-Bending Riddles Inspired by Philosophy | With Answers and Explanations | Philosophical Riddles | Philosophy in Rhymes : From Plato, Socrates, Lao Tzu, the Stoics, Epicurus, Buddhism, Rumi

“You were beautiful
when you tried to paint
what you didn’t know was torn
from an older painting.

No one understood
your eyes were never meant
to be unveiled—
for no one has known you
since the beginning of the world.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

“There I was,
Talking to you
in the language of sunsets.
I wanted to hold
that luminous wind in my hair,
to burst across the horizons and glow.
There you were,
like a minute flowing out of an hour,
In the big air,
Separating me from myself.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

“nu știu de ce
timpul
se plimbă azi
prin fața noastră
blând și nisipos
ca femeile poeților.
în toate cântecele mă vrea.
poate tu mă vrei primi o clipă
în Andaluzia ta
în care astăzi
n-a murit nimeni.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, Orbul de la Cină

“Slowly, you have flown away from me
Without even knowing
that I was your last love
The one you didn't get to cover
with emptiness.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

“I was praying that no one
Would understand my words,
For I had lain beside your name
and loved you.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

“All she wanted was
A luminous fish,
One she could never fish.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

“bătrânii
își țin sărutul
în pietre.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, Orbul de la Cină

“The night slowly opens before us,
and we step inside,
while all around us turns to distance.
A new world will soon be born
from the fading traces of our tears.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

“I watched you from behind my solitude,
It was like watching an icon
painted in the most beautiful moment
of my life.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

“Don't strive to understand
When there is no meaning.
Leave yourself
Happy and blind
In the unborn light...
Some day, when silence is complete
We'll be hiding in the eye of time
Behind the memory,
Then we start all over.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

“From the house I built for you
In my heart
A few dreams ago
Only one shattered window remains
In which the sun mirrors itself
Every morning,
While the shards break its light
Into small pieces.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

“I wanted to lay
on the empty shore of our season
and cover my hair
with the grey sand of memories.
But I began to slowly slip away,
as the summer turned
into autumn.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

“There is so much love in a sunset,
Descending from this world
In quiet worship.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

“cu noi timpul tace lung
ca un câine mort
după luna desenată
de un copil cuminte
pe asfalt.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, Orbul de la Cină

“Have you ever heard
A cold sun weeping
On the edge of
an uncreated universe…?”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu

“I fell for you
at the time when
the leaves were hiding their souls
deep within the earth.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty

“This is the voice that sings
Where no one else can sing.
It will end too,
Yet its force you will carry forward
In your being, from dream to dream,
Into the flowering void.”
― Monica Laura Rapeanu, The Void That Reflects Your Beauty