Dulce María Loynaz, tr. by James O’Connor, from Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems
[Text ID: “Your hands have a strange clarity. Have you been walking among the stars?”]
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i want to live on his tongue, build a home of gospel
Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems, Dulce María Loynaz, tr. by James O’Connor ( @feral-ballad ) | Farewell, Arthur Hacker | Death Wish, Josh Alex Baker | L’Amore, la Morte e Il Sogno, Roberto Ferri | The Torn-Up Road, Richard Siken | The Fall (detail), Alan Stephens Foster | The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar, Danez Smith | Scene of Deluge (detail), Joseph-Désiré Court
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Dulce María Loynaz
Christina Perri
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I would never tie you down, not even with garlands of roses. I don't want anything from you that doesn't come from your own impulse, like water from the springs.
Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “XLVI”
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Does my sweetness lie so deep within me you need to cut me to find it?
Dulce María Loynaz, from Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems
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i am the ocean; the earth; whatever dies for you
pedro salinas tr. by ruth katz crispin, the voice I owe to you / patty dickson pieczka, autumn / louise glück, marathon / dulce maría loynaz tr. by james o'connor, absolute solitude / vladimir nabokov, in a letter to his wife véra / c.t. salazar, headless john the baptist hitchhiking / sara shagufta tr. by sascha aurora akhtar, how solitary is the moon / vladimir nabokov, ada, or ardor / alice notley, the black trailer
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"I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you"
I just want someone to grab my little face and scream "ON PURPOSE, ON PURPOSE I AM GOING TO CARE ABOUT YOU"
Chidi Anagonye : Can I ask you a question? Soulmates aren't... real, are they?
Michael : Chidi, in all honesty, I don't know. But I don't think so.
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Michael : If soulmates do exist, they're not found, they're made. People meet, they get a good feeling, and then they get to work building a relationship.
Anne Carson, Euripides || Dulce María Loynaz, from “Poem XCI,” trans. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Prose Poems (First Archipelago, 2016) || Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars || Russian Doll, Season 2 || Jenny Slate || Dead Poets Society || The Good Place || Death with Interruptions, José Saramago || Russian Doll, Season 1
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Dulce María Loynaz, from Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; "CXLXVII" (tr. James O'Connor)
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Nel miei verso sono libera: è il mio mare.
Il mio mare ampio e nudo di orizzonti.
Dulce María Loynaz
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"Quién pudiera, como el río, ser fugitivo y eterno".
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Dulce María Loynaz, from These Are Not Sweet Girls: Poetry by Latin American Women; "Time"
[Text ID: "The kiss I didn't give you / has become a star inside me..."]
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Há em ti a fadiga de uma asa muito tempo tensa.
Dulce María Loynaz
In: Jardim de outono (2020)
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Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems, Dulce María Loynaz, tr. by James O’Connor ( @feral-ballad )
Death Wish, Josh Alex Baker
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I ask myself what I will do here on earth with this worthless, defiant body. And I hear my body answer:
—What will I do with this spark that believed itself the sun and this breath that believed itself the wind?
Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “XXXII”
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Every morning a rose rots in somebody’s coffin.
Every night God is sold for thirty pieces of silver.
And you complain of betrayal when it bites into your side, of mud when it splatters your face. You! who want to love without darkness and without toil! Pray tell. Is your love greater than a rose? Or is it greater than God?
Dulce María Loynaz, Poem V, in Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems, trans. James O'Connor
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