Duende

“I’m sorry. This is not what I intended to say. What I meant to say is this: You’ll write more poems. They are not lost. You are the poetry.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

“My love for her is vehement, protracted, and interminable.”
― Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her

“She's made of the stories she has read.”
― Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her

“All my life, I’d been silent. Whenever I’d been tempted to speak, I’d quickly changed my mind. “Why bother?” I’d say to myself. “What difference will it make if you speak?” In the past, I’d been just as quick to let emotion get in the way — to decide, on slim evidence, that a certain person could never understand me. But this time, my first impressions stood fast: she would understand me perfectly.”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat