Ilse Mereu

“It is spring, and the night wind
is moist with the smell of turned loam
and the early flowers;
the moon pours out its beauty
which you see as beauty finally,
warm and offering everything.
You have only to take.”
― Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems 2: 1976 - 1986

“I wish to show you the darkness you are so afraid of. Trust me. This darkness is a place you can enter and be as safe in as you are anywhere; you can put one foot in front of the other and believe the sides of your eyes. Memorize it. You will know it again in your own time. When the appearances of things have left you, you will still have this darkness. Something of your own you can carry with you.”
― Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems 2: 1976 - 1986

“This is “poetry,” this song
of the wind across teeth,
this message from the flayed tongue
to the flayed ear.”
― Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems 2: 1976 - 1986

“There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.”
― Anais Nin