Mehrasa

“Masochism is the art of turning punishments into rewards.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Your eyes begin in my eyes which no longer see you. Begin in my voice which no longer speaks to you. Die out in my hands which no longer touch you. Your eyes are inscribed in my flesh. No one can bear to see me now. Sinister tattoo. I do the rain, I do the sun. For want of your eyes in my eyes.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, The Galloping Hour: French Poems

“the sense of things
remains in the intensity of their names”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, The Galloping Hour: French Poems

“Remember it. Remember that I must want it badly. Remember that this is the only thing left to want, in this world wide and deep.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, The Galloping Hour: French Poems