My time is too short:
I want the essence,
my soul is in a hurry.
I don’t have many sweets
in the package anymore.
—Mário Raul de Morais Andrade, poet (Brazil)
- My Real Purpose Might Be To Learn To Have No PurposesI did not know that I could only get the most out of life by giving myself up to it. Here then was a deadlock. I wanted to get the most out of life, but the more I tried to grasp, the more I felt that I was ever outside, missing things. At that time… Read more: My Real Purpose Might Be To Learn To Have No Purposes
- I Can’t Just Speak About SufferingIf there is to be any truth in beauty I can’t just speak about suffering as if there isn’t some good in suffering too. — Todd Dillard from poem Arts and Crafts with the Addict’s Son
- I Remember My Watery NatureI remember my watery nature, pour my liquid body to wash away the pain of the shorter years, to wash away the pain of a hollow embrace, the feeling that we all will slide, not into the clear pool, but into the murk of a place that should not be settled. — Petra Kuppers from… Read more: I Remember My Watery Nature
- Don’t Remember Lighting This Cigarettedon’t remember lighting this cigarette and I don’t remember if I’m here alone or waiting for someone. — Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
- You Fit Into Meyou fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye — Margaret Atwood from poem [you fit into me]