“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. Finally: happy.”
― The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
― The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
“You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.”
― Letters to Felice
― Letters to Felice
“This afternoon I couldn't get out of bed, not because I was too tired but because I was too "heavy" - again and again that word, it's the only one that fits me, do you understand this at all? It's something like the “heaviness” of a ship which has lost its rudder and which says to the waves: "I'm too heavy for myself and for you too light".”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“Continue to believe that with your feeling and with
your work you take part in what is greatest. The more strongly you cultivate this belief inside of you, the more it will give rise to reality and world.”
― The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
your work you take part in what is greatest. The more strongly you cultivate this belief inside of you, the more it will give rise to reality and world.”
― The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
“How long will it feel like burning, said the child trying to be kind.”
― Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
― Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
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