'But You Tell Me Profound Loves Do Not Satisfy You. You Crave To Give And To Receive Stronger Sensations.

I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add me to the sum of her.

Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

and the moon is the mouth of a lover

Garous Abdolmalekian, Acquiescence tr. Ahmed Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey

Either she loves him, or she is resolved to.

Wisława Szymborska, Portrait of a Woman tr. Regina Grol

The light is nervous and quiet -

Urszula M. Benka, To the Last Man on Earth, In the Hour of His Death tr. Regina Grol

It may be that we have become more interesting to each other at the expense of trust.

Anaïs Nin, Henry and June

Fifty Days at Iliam: The Fire The Consumes All Before It

Cy Twombly, 1978

Oil, oil crayon, and graphite on canvas

Photo taken from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

but indirectly children know everything there is to know. They just don't know why.

Nancy Milford, Savage Beauty

to want and to wonder are parallel actions

- Jessica Fisher, Anne Carson’s Stereoscopic Poetics

green leaves / torn straight from the cross

- Agata Tuszyńska, Faith tr. Regina Grol

Of the moon all that's left is a stain upon the window.

Garous Abdolmalekian, Necklace tr. Ahmed Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey