Thalia

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.”
― Clarice Lispector

“Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.”
― Madonna

“El amor se trunca a veces
como un miembro amputado,
pero el vacío sigue haciendo sus gestos,
que tal vez alguien reciba.

Aunque el amor se vaya,
el hábito de amar se alarga siempre.
Por eso no es extraño
que si el amor retorna
sus gestos se entremezclen
con los gestos anteriores.
Y aparezcan amores
que vagan por el mundo
con gestos duplicados,
amores que parecen dos amores.

No es raro, por lo tanto,
que confundamos un amor con otro
y hasta amemos aquel que ya no está
en lugar del que está.”
― Roberto Juarroz, Poesía vertical: Antología