Angie

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms

“SAMEDI (SAINT), 25

PASSAGÈRE DE MON INSOMNIE d'hier
un brin, pour un instant, elle m'a souri
la mignonne déesse au ruban mauve qui depuis ma tendre enfance m'initie aux mystères


Puis elle a disparu en flottant vers la droite
pour aller vider le seau de mes scories
- mégots de l'âme et poèmes avortés -
là où rissole encore toute une jeunesse ancienne
et arrogante la mer.”
― Odysséas Elýtis

“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis