Lilly

“Clock snips time in two Lap of rain In the drain pipe Two o’clock And never you. Never you, down the evening, I cannot14 Cry, or even smile Acidly or bitter-sweetly For never you and incompletely. Things surround me; I could touch Soap or toothbrush Desk or chair. Never mind the three dimensions All is flat, and you not there. Letters, paper, stamps And white. And black. typewritten-you, and there It is. The trickle, liquid trickle Of rain in drain-pipe Is voice enough For me tonight. And the click-click Hard quick click-click Of the clock Is pain enough, enough heart-beat15 For me tonight. The narrow cot, The iron bed Is space enough And warmth enough …16 Enough, enough. To bed and sleep And tearless creep The formless seconds Minutes hours And never you The raindrops weep”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I'm very much against the arrangement of procreation, at least for humans. If I could have designed it, it would be a toss-up who gets pregnant, the man or woman. Boy, that would end rape for one thing. And 'woman artist'? Disgusting.”
― Dorothea Tanning, Between Lives: An Artist and Her World

“Mislim da se srž sveg ludila u svijetu nastanila u mojem mozgu onoga dana kada sam svoju sudbinu povezala s njegovom!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Čim počne da zri leto, neka snaga, za koju ne znam da li dolazi iz mene ili iz svetova oko mene, digne me kao vlaga klicu put svetlosti, i ja putujem, vozim se, plovim, letim. Drugim rečima, srećan sam, jer ne bih mogao kazati gde sam.”
― Ivo Andrić, Jelena, žena koje nema