“You sit at the edge of the world,
I am in a crater that's no more.
Words without letters
Standing in the shadow of the door.
The moon shines down on a sleeping lizard,
Little fish rain from the sky.
Outside the window there are soldiers,
steeling themselves to die.
(Refrain)
Kafka sits in a chair by the shore,
Thinking for the pendulum that moves the world, it seems.
When your heart is closed,
The shadow of the unmoving Sphinx,
Becomes a knife that pierces your dreams.
The drowning girl's fingers
Search for the entrance stone, and more.
Lifting the hem of her azure dress,
She gazes --
at Kafka on the shore”
― Kafka on the Shore
I am in a crater that's no more.
Words without letters
Standing in the shadow of the door.
The moon shines down on a sleeping lizard,
Little fish rain from the sky.
Outside the window there are soldiers,
steeling themselves to die.
(Refrain)
Kafka sits in a chair by the shore,
Thinking for the pendulum that moves the world, it seems.
When your heart is closed,
The shadow of the unmoving Sphinx,
Becomes a knife that pierces your dreams.
The drowning girl's fingers
Search for the entrance stone, and more.
Lifting the hem of her azure dress,
She gazes --
at Kafka on the shore”
― Kafka on the Shore
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“In the green morning
I wanted to be a heart.
A heart.
And in the ripe evening
I wanted to be a nightingale.
A nightingale.
(Soul,
turn orange-colored.
Soul,
turn the color of love.)
In the vivid morning
I wanted to be myself.
A heart.
And at the evening's end
I wanted to be my voice.
A nightingale.
Soul,
turn orange-colored.
Soul,
turn the color of love.
- Ditty of First Desire”
― Selected Verse
I wanted to be a heart.
A heart.
And in the ripe evening
I wanted to be a nightingale.
A nightingale.
(Soul,
turn orange-colored.
Soul,
turn the color of love.)
In the vivid morning
I wanted to be myself.
A heart.
And at the evening's end
I wanted to be my voice.
A nightingale.
Soul,
turn orange-colored.
Soul,
turn the color of love.
- Ditty of First Desire”
― Selected Verse
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
―
―
“Madrigals"
1
Like concentric ripples
over the water,
so in my heart
your words.
Like a bird that strikes
against the wind,
so on my lips
your kisses.
Like exposed fountains
opposing the evening,
so my dark eyes
over your flesh.
2
I am caught
in your circles,
concentric.
Like Saturn
I wear
the rings
of my dream.
I am not ruined by setting
nor do I rise myself.”
―
1
Like concentric ripples
over the water,
so in my heart
your words.
Like a bird that strikes
against the wind,
so on my lips
your kisses.
Like exposed fountains
opposing the evening,
so my dark eyes
over your flesh.
2
I am caught
in your circles,
concentric.
Like Saturn
I wear
the rings
of my dream.
I am not ruined by setting
nor do I rise myself.”
―
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