“I choose to love this time for once
with all my intelligence
-from "Splittings”
― The Dream of a Common Language
with all my intelligence
-from "Splittings”
― The Dream of a Common Language
“How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me,
my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running.
So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes,
and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans.”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running.
So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes,
and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans.”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“The longer I live the more I mistrust
theatricality, the false glamour cast
by performance, the more I know its poverty beside
the truths we are salvaging from
the splitting-open of our lives.
-from "Transcendental Etude”
― The Dream of a Common Language
theatricality, the false glamour cast
by performance, the more I know its poverty beside
the truths we are salvaging from
the splitting-open of our lives.
-from "Transcendental Etude”
― The Dream of a Common Language
“Femininity is depicted as weakness, the sapping of strength, yet masculinity is so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the feminine destroys it.”
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