“Black was the without eye
Black the within tongue
Black was the heart
Black the liver, black the lungs
Unable to suck in light
Black the blood in its loud tunnel
Black the bowels packed in furnace
Black too the muscles
Striving to pull out into the light
Black the nerves, black the brain
With its tombed visions
Black also the soul, the huge stammer
Of the cry that, swelling, could not
Pronounce its sun.”
― Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow
Black the within tongue
Black was the heart
Black the liver, black the lungs
Unable to suck in light
Black the blood in its loud tunnel
Black the bowels packed in furnace
Black too the muscles
Striving to pull out into the light
Black the nerves, black the brain
With its tombed visions
Black also the soul, the huge stammer
Of the cry that, swelling, could not
Pronounce its sun.”
― Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow
“You were overloaded. I said nothing.
I said nothing. The stone man made soup.
The burning woman drank it.”
― Birthday Letters
I said nothing. The stone man made soup.
The burning woman drank it.”
― Birthday Letters
“You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.”
― Letters of Ted Hughes
― Letters of Ted Hughes
“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”
― All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners
― All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners
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