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“To be alive: not just the carcass /
But the spark.
That's crudely put, but...
If we're not supposed to dance,
Why all this music?”
―
But the spark.
That's crudely put, but...
If we're not supposed to dance,
Why all this music?”
―
“And I dream too much and I don't write enough and I'm trying to find God everywhere.”
―
―
“So now my prayer is this:
You, my own deep soul,
trust me. I will not betray you.
My blood is alive with many voices
telling me I am made of longing.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Dann bete du, wie es dich dieser Iehrt,” Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 1996)”
―
You, my own deep soul,
trust me. I will not betray you.
My blood is alive with many voices
telling me I am made of longing.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Dann bete du, wie es dich dieser Iehrt,” Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 1996)”
―
“His eyes they held the most dangerous thing, they held the top of the sins. Indifference. Indifference. A vacancy where human care should be.”
― Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
― Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung
“When you left I walked
into the ocean. Not to
drown but to be held
by something
reluctant
to let go. Don’t
make this bigger
than it is, which is big
enough to swallow
whales
and civilizations.
I joined
the blue, I was blue.
And when I looked
down, I shattered
and reformed
so many times, you know, I couldn’t catch
a clear look at myself.”
―
into the ocean. Not to
drown but to be held
by something
reluctant
to let go. Don’t
make this bigger
than it is, which is big
enough to swallow
whales
and civilizations.
I joined
the blue, I was blue.
And when I looked
down, I shattered
and reformed
so many times, you know, I couldn’t catch
a clear look at myself.”
―
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