“I have lifted my veil
and I’m baring my soul to you.
Don’t you see my heart crying?
How did you become so cruel?
Did someone hurt you, too?”
―
and I’m baring my soul to you.
Don’t you see my heart crying?
How did you become so cruel?
Did someone hurt you, too?”
―
“And there’s you,
with your purity and beauty.
You unyoke me.
We lie on the bed,
closer than a hand in a glove,
yet I still experience this distant ache.
I miss you even in your presence.
How did love find me
when I hid from it so masterfully?
How did love know when to strike?
I look into your infinite eyes
and can say nothing.
Because there, in front of me,
lies everything.
And you unyoke me.”
―
with your purity and beauty.
You unyoke me.
We lie on the bed,
closer than a hand in a glove,
yet I still experience this distant ache.
I miss you even in your presence.
How did love find me
when I hid from it so masterfully?
How did love know when to strike?
I look into your infinite eyes
and can say nothing.
Because there, in front of me,
lies everything.
And you unyoke me.”
―
“I alone with my undiscovered love,
without heart, without tears,
towards the skies’ impossible roof
with a huge sun to console me.”
― The Selected Poems
without heart, without tears,
towards the skies’ impossible roof
with a huge sun to console me.”
― The Selected Poems
“Una volta una ammalata mi appioppò un sonoro ceffone. Il mio primo istinto fu quello di renderglielo. Ma poi presi quella vecchia mano e la baciai. La vecchia si mise a piangere.
«Tu sei mia figlia», mi disse.
E allora capii che cosa aveva significato quel gesto di violenza. Di fatto, non esiste pazzia senza giustificazione e ogni gesto che dalla gente comune e sobria viene considerato pazzo coinvolge il mistero di una inaudita sofferenza che non è stata colta dagli uomini.”
― L'altra verità: Diario di una diversa
«Tu sei mia figlia», mi disse.
E allora capii che cosa aveva significato quel gesto di violenza. Di fatto, non esiste pazzia senza giustificazione e ogni gesto che dalla gente comune e sobria viene considerato pazzo coinvolge il mistero di una inaudita sofferenza che non è stata colta dagli uomini.”
― L'altra verità: Diario di una diversa
“Today in my heart
a vague trembling of stars,
but my way is lost
in the soul of the mist.
Light lops my wings.”
― The Selected Poems
a vague trembling of stars,
but my way is lost
in the soul of the mist.
Light lops my wings.”
― The Selected Poems
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