Zora

“An Attempt at Jealousy"

How is your life with an ordinary
woman? without the god inside her?
The queen supplanted—

How do you breathe now?
Flinch, waking up?
What do you do, poor man?

How’s your life with a tourist
on Earth? Her rib (do you love her?)
is it to your liking?

How do you live with cheap goods: is the market rising?
How’s kissing plaster-dust?

Are you bored with her new body?
How’s it going, with an earthly woman,
with no sixth sense?

Are you happy?
No? In a shallow pit—how is your life,
my beloved? Hard as mine
with another man?”
― Marina Tsvetaeva, Selected Poems

“What am I here for? To listen to my soul.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva, Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922

“Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.”
― Austin Osman Spare