Ina Capulong
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“Yes, of course we were pretentious—what else is youth for?”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“The arrogance of wanting to be loved had emerged only now it was unreciprocated—I was left alone with my desire, defenseless, beyond the law, shockingly crude in my demands: Love me! And for what reason? I had only the usual paltry, insufficient excuse: Because I love you . .”
― On Love
― On Love
“If your everyday life seems poor to you, do not accuse it; accuse yourself, tell yourself you are not poet enough to summon up its riches; since for the creator there is no poverty and no poor or unimportant place.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Isn’t there something between stagnation and heading somewhere?” “Like?” “Like having a nice time. Enjoy the day and all that?”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
“You are so young, you have not even begun, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that is unsolved in your heart and to try to cherish the questions themselves, like closed rooms and like books written in a very strange tongue.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
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