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  • #1
    Anne Sexton
    “Now I am going back
    And I have ripped my hand
    From your hand as I said I would
    And I have made it this far ...”
    Anne Sexton

  • #2
    Charles Bukowski
    “nobody ever finds
    the one”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #3
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
    Simone de Beauvoir

  • #4
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “There's something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.'

    There are too many with that vocation. God would have had to love only me.”
    Simone de Beauvoir, All Men Are Mortal

  • #5
    Matija Bećković
    “Kad sam je drugi put video rekao sam:
    "Eno Moje Poezije kako prelazi ulicu."
    Obećala je da će doći ako bude lepo vreme.
    Brinuo sam o vremenu, pisao svim meteorološkim stanicama.
    Svim poštarima svim pesnicima a naročito sebi.
    Da se kiše zadrže u zabačenim krajevima.
    Bojao sam se da preko noći ne izbije rat,
    Jer na svašta su spremni oni koji hoće da ometu naš sastanak
    Sastanak na koji već kasni čitavu moju mladost.
    Te noći sam nekoliko vekova strepeo za tu ženu
    Tu ženu sa dve senke,
    Od kojih je jedna mračnija i nosi moje ime.
    Sad se čitav grad okreće za Mojom Poezijom
    Koju sam davno sreo na ulici i pitao:
    "Gospodjice osećam se kao stvar koju ste izgubili
    Da nisam možda ispao iz vaše tašne?"
    Ja sam njen lični pesnik kao što ona ima i lične ljubavnike.
    Volim je više no što mogu da izdržim,
    Više od mojih raširenih ruku,
    Mojih ljubavnih ruku punih žara punih magneta i ludila.
    Moj snu, kao asfalt izbušen njenim štiklama,
    Noći, za mene sve duža bačena izmedju nas,
    Ona mi celu krv nesrećnom ljubavlju zamenjuje.
    Moje su uši pune njenog karmina,
    Te providne te hladne uši to slatko u njima
    Kad se kao prozori zamagle od njenog daha.
    Kako je ona putovala pomerao se i centar sveta.
    Pomerala se njena soba koja ne izlazi iz moje glave
    Sumo vremena, sumo ničega, ljubavna sumo,
    Još ne prestaje da me boli uvo
    Koje mi je pre rodjenja otkinuo Van Gog
    To uvo što krvari putujući u ljubavnim kovertama.
    U staklenu zoru palu u prašinu,
    Plivao sam što dalje ka pustim mestima da bih slobodno jaukao.
    Ptico nataložena u grudima što ti ponestaje vazduha,
    Radnice popodne na tudjem balkonu,
    Već dvadeset godina moj pokojni otac ne popravlja telefon,
    Već dvadeset godina on je mrtav bez ikakvih isprava.
    O koliko ćemo užasno biti razdvojeni i paralelni,
    O koliko ćemo biti sami u svojim grobovima.
    Još oko nje oblećem kao noćni leptir oko sveće
    I visoke prozore spuštam pred njene noge.
    Moje srce me drži u zatvoru i vodi pred njenu kuću
    Gde su spuštene zavese nad mojom ljubavlju.
    Ta žena puna malih časovnika sa očima u mojoj glavi,
    Taj andjeo, isprljan suncem list vode, list vazduha,
    Ljubomorne zveri oru zemlju i same se zakopavaju.
    O sunce nadjeno medju otpacima...
    Zuje uporednici kao telegrafske žice,
    Prevrću se golubovi kao beli plakati u vazduhu,
    I mrtve ih krila godinama zadržavaju u visinama
    Kao što mene njena obećanja održavaju u životu.
    O siroče u srcu što ti brišem suze
    Moja nesrećna ljubavi razmeno djubreta
    Stidim se dok je ljubim kao da sam sve to izmislio.
    Kuća, ništavilo na svim prozorima,
    Sve je dignuto u vazduh.
    Samo se još nesrećni pesnici kurvinski bave nadom.”
    Matija Bećković

  • #6
    Sylvia Plath
    “Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #7
    Sylvia Plath
    “Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
    Sylvia Plath

  • #8
    Ted Hughes
    “The Other"

    She had too much so with a smile you
    took some.
    Of everything she had you had
    Absolutely nothing, so you took some.
    At first, just a little.

    Still she had so much she made you feel
    Your vacuum, which nature abhorred,
    So you took your fill, for nature's sake.
    Because her great luck made you feel unlucky
    You had redressed the balance, which meant
    Now you had some too, for yourself.
    As seemed only fair. Still her ambition
    Claimed the natural right to screw you up
    Like a crossed out page, lossed into a basket.
    Somebody, on behalf of the gods,
    Had to correct that hubris.
    A little touch of hatred steadied the nerves.

    Everything she had won, the happiness of it,
    You collected
    As your compensation
    For having lost. Which left her absolutely
    Nothing. Even her life was
    Trapped in the heap you took. She had nothing.
    Too late you saw what had happened.
    It made no difference that she was dead.
    Now that you had all she had ever had
    You had much too much.
    Only you
    Saw her smile, as she took some.
    At first, just a little.”
    Ted Hughes

  • #9
    Sylvia Plath
    “If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #10
    Rosa Luxemburg
    “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
    Rosa Luxemburg



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