Luisa

“Abolish these categories of pain
(or is it love)
Let it all be one pain
Pain swallows itself, dies like a star.”
― Alice Notley, Disobedience

“Una palabra canta en mi corazón, susurrante
hoja verde sin fin cayendo. En la noche balsámica,
cuando la sombra es el crecer desmesurado de los árboles,
me besa un largo sueño de viajes prodigiosos
y hay en mi corazón una gran luz de sol y maravilla”
― Aurelio Arturo, Morada al sur y otros poemas

“Oh, living is so uncomfortable. Everything presses in: the body demands, the spirit never ceases, living is like being weary but being unable to sleep–living is upsetting. You can’t walk around naked, either in body or in spirit.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

“So I must say it quickly:
Whoever is in your life,
those who harm you,
those who help you;
those whom you know
and those whom you do not know –
let them off the hook,
help them off the hook.
Recognize the hook.”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing