“I no longer love. // To prove this, I have cut off my hands.”
— — Sumita Chakraborty, “O Spirit,” Arrow
“All of your desires were completely impractical / That is, you did not want to atone for anything you had done”
— — Wendy Xu, from “My Dissent and My Love Are Woven Inside Me,” The Past
Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems
Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972
Nedra Glover Tawwab, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972
Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays (tr. Jan van Heurck)
[Text ID: “Was winter coming already?”]
Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays (tr. Jan van Heurck)
[Text ID: “Was winter coming already?”]
Bertolt Brecht, from Love Songs: III; Poems: 1913-1956 (ed. by John Willett and Ralph Manheim)
Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays (tr. Jan van Heurck)
[Text ID: I have a pale memory of that time; I felt nothing.]
doped-up-marxist
"Don't lie to people" is all very good until u remember how funny it is to give the wrong birthday to an astrology person and have them go "that explains so much abt you
“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”
— Virginia Wolf, Selected Letters