petia

“... И нищо че крила корави нямам!
И нищо че животът ме ограбил
и ми оставил само черни жалби
и туй сърце, което толкоз страда!

О, нека всичко, всичко да ми вземат,
но към света да ми оставят само
едно око, с което да го виждам,
едно сърце, с което да го чувствам,
една ръка, с която да го сложа
завинаги в най-честния си стих!”
― Дамян Дамянов

“Quiet descended on her, calm, content, as her needle, drawing the silk smoothly to its gentle pause, collected the green folds together and attached them, very lightly, to the belt. So on a summer’s day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying “that is all” more and more ponderously, until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach says too, That is all. Fear no more, says the heart. Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall. And the body alone listens to the passing bee; the wave breaking; the dog barking, far away barking and barking.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Clarissa had a theory in those days - they had heaps of theories, always theories, as young people have. It was to explain the feeling they had of dissatisfaction; not knowing people; not being known. For how could they know each other? You met every day; then not for six months, or years. It was unsatisfactory, they agreed, how little one knew people. But she said, sitting on the bus going up Shaftesbury Avenue, she felt herself everywhere; not 'here, here, here'; and she tapped the back of the seat; but everywhere. She waved her hand, going up Shaftesbury Avenue. She was all that. So that to know her, or any one, one must seek out the people who completed them; even the places. Odd affinities she had with people she had never spoke to, some women in the street, some man behind a counter - even trees, or barns. It ended in a transcendental theory which, with her horror of death, allowed her to believe, or say that she believed (for all her scepticism), that since our apparitions, the part of us which appears, are so momentary compared with the other, the unseen part of us, which spreads wide, the unseen might survive, be recovered somehow attached to this person or that, or even haunting certain places, after death. Perhaps - perhaps.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Къде отиват ненаписаните стихове, неродените образи?
Въздухът е пълен със зародиши на неосъществени творби. Може би те са онази съставка на земната атмосфера, която дава живот на планетата.
Ние вдишваме поезията от въздуха, без да усетим.
Тя прониква в нас чрез ритъм на заглъхнали стъпки, чрез излъчвания от фантазията на непознати поети, отдавна мъртви, чрез душевни вибрации, които не могат да пресекнат.
Слепи и глухи минаваме през света, без да доловим поезията наоколо. Само когато кожата ни се провре през огъня и леда на някакво страдание, в нея се отварят рани като очи и уши. И докато раните не са още заръбнали, ние поемаме през тях на парещи глътки поезията на света.”
― Blaga Dimitrova, Лавина