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If political talk and social theory haven’t managed to make life more livable for all on their own, then perhaps poetry can shore up a decolonial knowledge that queers and indigenizes freedom.
“Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.”
― Survival in Auschwitz
― Survival in Auschwitz
“I am getting the bad feeling that my friends are growing tired of me. I am growing tired of me, too.”
― The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial
― The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial
“He visits my town once a year.
He fills my mouth with kisses and nectar.
I spend all my money on him.
Who, girl, your man?
No, a mango.”
― In the Bazaar of Love: The Selected Poetry of Amir Khusrau
He fills my mouth with kisses and nectar.
I spend all my money on him.
Who, girl, your man?
No, a mango.”
― In the Bazaar of Love: The Selected Poetry of Amir Khusrau
“It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.”
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“When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.”
― Jacob's Room
― Jacob's Room
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