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“Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try:
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.”
― The White Devil
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.”
― The White Devil
“Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?
So may you blame some fair and crystal river,
For that some melancholic distracted man
Hath drowned himself in’t.”
― The White Devil
So may you blame some fair and crystal river,
For that some melancholic distracted man
Hath drowned himself in’t.”
― The White Devil
“Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“We endure the strokes like anvils or hard steel,
Till pain itself make us no pain to feel.”
― The White Devil
Till pain itself make us no pain to feel.”
― The White Devil
“Out in the sky, no one sleeps. No one, no one.
No one sleeps.
In a graveyard far off there is a corpse
who has moaned for three years
because of an arid landscape in his knee;
and that boy they buried this morning cried so much
it was necessary to call out the dogs to keep him quiet.
Life is not a dream. Careful! Careful! Careful!
We fall down the stairs in order to eat the moist earth
or we climb to the snow's edge with the voices of dead dahlias.
But there is no oblivion; no dream:
only flesh exists. Kisses tie our mouths
in a tangle of new veins,
and those who hurt will hurt without rest
and those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.”
―
No one sleeps.
In a graveyard far off there is a corpse
who has moaned for three years
because of an arid landscape in his knee;
and that boy they buried this morning cried so much
it was necessary to call out the dogs to keep him quiet.
Life is not a dream. Careful! Careful! Careful!
We fall down the stairs in order to eat the moist earth
or we climb to the snow's edge with the voices of dead dahlias.
But there is no oblivion; no dream:
only flesh exists. Kisses tie our mouths
in a tangle of new veins,
and those who hurt will hurt without rest
and those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.”
―
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