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“Every thing has an instant in which it is. I want to grab hold of the is of the thing. These instants passing through the air I breathe: in fireworks they explode silently in space.”
― Água Viva
― Água Viva
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“But the most important word in the language has but two letters: is. Is. I am at its core. I still am. I am at the living and soft centre. Still. It sparkles and is elastic.”
― Água Viva
― Água Viva
“Mole. E enjoada comigo mesma como se me tivesse provado. Um pedaço de pão que depois de se mastigar durante muito tempo acabasse sabendo mal. Sabendo a mim própria, aos meus próprios sucos. Cuspi-me com desagrado para cima da cama e aqui fiquei líquida e espapaçada. É um estado de espírito entre calmo e desesperado com uma leve ansiedade à mistura. Por vezes sinto medo desta solidão maior do que nunca foi, imensa. Para onde quer que me volte só dou comigo mesma. Mas já me vi bastante e acabo de reparar que nada mais tenho a dizer-me. Nada mais.”
― Tanta Gente, Mariana
― Tanta Gente, Mariana
“At half past three in the morning I woke up. And immediately elastic I
jumped out of bed. I came to write you. I mean: be. Now it’s half past five. I
want nothing: I am pure. I don’t wish this solitude on you. But I myself am
in the creating fog. Lucid darkness, luminous stupidity.”
― Água Viva
jumped out of bed. I came to write you. I mean: be. Now it’s half past five. I
want nothing: I am pure. I don’t wish this solitude on you. But I myself am
in the creating fog. Lucid darkness, luminous stupidity.”
― Água Viva
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