One Realizes That Human Relationships Are The Tragic Necessity Of Human Life; That They Can Never Be
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.
Willa Cather, Not Under Forty
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How much more drama can one body take? I wake up in the morning and relinquish my dreams. I go to bed with my beloved. I am delirious with my tenderness. Once, I was brave, but I have grown so weary of danger. I am soundlessness amid the constant sounds of war.
Ada Limón, “I Have Wanted Clarity in Light of My Lack of Light”
He just cried on, this hopeless hard retching as if the tears were shards and each one cut as it came out.
Niall Williams, History of the Rain
tragedy is thinking in action, thinking upon action, for the sake of action
- Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
I say we but it's just an illusion that our hearts beat in unison
Wisława Szymborska, We tr. Regina Grol
burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando
I pray as if you existed.
Maria Bigoszewska, tr Regina Grol
Thought and life are as the poles asunder.
- Virginia Woolf, Orlando
He's got all that mind, all that inner country he keeps going around in, mines and craters, caverns and dead ends.
Niall Williams, History of the Rain
and in a windowless attic some of me is in the smoke rising from the chimney
Anna Frajlich, Here I Am tr. Regina Grol
in 2005, bon iver locked himself in a log cabin in wisconsin for a now-legendary vibe check
