“O pó
em cima dos móveis
as camas
vazias de um asilo
acidentes
de automóvel
pernas
com varizes
a Morte nos circunda
de dentro pra fora e por todos os cantos, ainda assim, impressionantemente, o
medo não é o nosso estado natural.”
― Pequena Coreografia do Adeus
em cima dos móveis
as camas
vazias de um asilo
acidentes
de automóvel
pernas
com varizes
a Morte nos circunda
de dentro pra fora e por todos os cantos, ainda assim, impressionantemente, o
medo não é o nosso estado natural.”
― Pequena Coreografia do Adeus
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
―
―
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
―
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
―
“I’ll teach you how to decipher all the confused faces by closing your eyes & how to cringe when someone says the words ‘your generation’. I will teach you how not to demonise your enemies & how to make yourself unappetising when the hordes turn up to eat you. I’ll teach you how to yell with your mouth closed & how to steal happiness & how the only real joy is singing yourself hoarse & nude girls & how never to eat in an empty restaurant & how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain & how everyone has a stump where something necessary was amputated. I’ll teach you how to know what’s missing.”
― A Fraction of the Whole
― A Fraction of the Whole
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