Isa Urzu

“And while I am completely engulfed in my sadness, I am happy to sense that you exist, beautiful one. I am happy to have flung myself without fear into your beauty just as a bird flings itself into space. I am happy, dear, to have walked with steady faith on the waters of our uncertainty all the way to that island which is your heart and where pain blossoms.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters for the Grieving Heart

“1 de enero

Que este año me sea dado vivir en mí y no fantasear ni ser otras, que me sea dado ponerme buena y no buscar lo imposible sino la magia y extrañeza de este mundo que habito. Que me sean dados los deseos de vivir y conocer el mundo. Que me sea dado el interesarme por este mundo.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik

“It is a blessed moment of inner life when one decides or resolves from now on to love with all one’s strength and unflinchingly that which one fears the most, that which has made us—according to our own measure—suffer too much. Don’t you believe that once such a decision has been made, the word “separation” is nothing but a name stripped of all meaning,”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters for the Grieving Heart

“Time itself does not “console,” as people say superficially; at best it assigns things to their proper place and creates an order.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation