satomipoema

… we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

– Amin Maalouf –

Ph : Maren Klemp

You write poems

because you need

a place

where you can not be

– Alejandra Pizarnik –

… with the very few beings that interest me … there is the absurd question:

I am a convulsion, a cry, blood howling.

– Alejandra Pizarnik –

Ph : Jeanloup Sieff

I do not know about birds

nor do I know the history of fire

but I believe that my solitude should have wings

– Alejandra Pizarnik –

I was always in love with people who do not exist

and here you are, today …

you love me in someone who does not exist …

– Alejandra Pizarnik –

Ph : Maren Klemp

The cage has become a bird

and has flown

my heart is crazy

because it howls at death

and smiles behind the wind

to my deliriums …

But my arms insist on embracing the world

because they have not yet been taught

that it is too late …

– Alejandra Pizarnik –

Ph : Alexandra Banti

You have not studied the histories of ancient times, and perhaps know not the life that breathes in them; a soul of beauty and wisdom which had penetrated my heart of hearts.

– Mary Shelley – Valperga

There was a raw, feral beauty about this landscape that was totally unselfconscious but no less real…There was no pomp or vainty here; this was an innocent, natural beauty, the best kind, like a woman first thing in the morning, lit up by the sun streaming through a window, who doesn’t quite believe it when you tell her how beautiful she is.

– Leonardo Donofrio – Old Country

There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.

– H.G. Wells – The Time Machine