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Iām still here, you know.
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But I [asked] for a proof of God. And I smelled the most intense thing, an overwhelmingly intense fragrance of roses.
Clarice Lispector, from āThe Dead Man in the Sea at Urcaā, Complete Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)
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She grows solitary as a tree or as a creek nobody knows, walking thus between an end and a beginning as if ageless or in a dream.
Gabriela Mistral, from She Who Walks (tr. by Randall Couch)
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Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Athan Anagnostopoulos, from āMaria Nephele: A Poem In Two,ā
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from caroline polachekāsĀ āocean of tearsā music video .
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āIt is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.ā
ā Niccolò Machiavelli, The Letters of Machiavelli
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āTime! Time that gives everything but itself, / Time that steals everything but the heartā / It caught in the throat / To see it light down all around us like a young girlās dress, / And we were the mystery underneath it:ā
ā Denis Johnson, from āThe Skewbald Horseā The Veil: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1987)
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Ornella Muti in publicity still for Swann in Love, 1984
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you feel it, donāt you? the blinding rage, the lust for revenge. why do you deny your own nature? it calls to you, I know it does. your name sounds especially haunting on the tongue of obliteration.
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Crows - Acrylic and gold leaf on wood Available on my Redbubble
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