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“When You Are Old"


WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.”
― W.B. Yeats

“He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.”
― Mary Oliver White Heron Rises Over Blackwater

“While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I’d take a taxi across town to see you for ten minutes. I’d wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say ‘Will you…’ my answer is ‘Yes’, before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“Menos mal
que no morí de los momentos en que
quise morir; que no salté del puente,
ni cubrí las muñecas de sangre, ni
me acosté en los rieles, allá lejos. Menos mal
que no até la cuerda a la viga del techo, ni
compré en la farmacia, con una receta falsa,
una dosis de sueño eterno. Menos mal
que tuve miedo: de los cuchillos, de las alturas, pero
sobre todo de no morir completamente
y quedarme por ahí —aún más perdida que
antes— escrutando sin ver.
Menos mal que el techo fue siempre demasiado alto y yo ridículamente pequeña para la muerte.

Si yo hubiera muerto de uno de esos momentos,
no oiría ahora tu voz, que me llama
mientras escribo este poema, que acaso
no parece, pero es, un poema de amor.”
― Maria do Rosário Pedreira, Y amores imperfectos