Jennifer

“Not unseated,
Not even touched
By the shocks of sickness,
Gods stand worlds from men.”
― Bacchylides, Greek Lyric, Volume IV: Bacchylides, Corinna, and Others

“There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The horses suddenly began to neigh, protesting
Against those who were drowning them in the ocean.
The horses sank to the bottom, neighing, neighing.
Until they had all gone down.
That is all. Nevertheless, I pity them,
Those bay horses, that never saw land again.”
― Boris Slutsky, Things That Happened

“Then she saw him stop and wipe his brow with his handkerchief. Once, twice. And then once again. But she did not see the grin of relief spread over his face. That she did not see because her eyes had filled with tears. And the geraniums, they were just as sad. In any case, that's how they smelled.”
― Wolfgang Borchert, The sad geraniums, and other stories