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I make sacrifices in reward of trinkets for my gilded cage.


Solange nicole


#money #poetic #society #solange #life

To abandon language is to stop/creating a place other than your own life/in which to live. It is to enter/the terrible certainty of the flesh. Even god/is only possible through language.


Jude Nutter


#life

What do you do when the alienating silence deafens your 'bootless cries'?


Solange nicole


#poetry-life #shakespeare #solange #life

I wanted to say a certain thing to a certain man, a certain true thing that had crept into my head. I opened my head, at the place provided, and proceeded to pronounce the true thing that lay languishing there—that is, proceeded to propel that trueness, that felicitous trularity, from its place inside my head out into world life. The certain man stood waiting to receive it. His face reflected an eager accepting-ness. Everything was right. I propelled, using my mind, my mouth, all my muscles. I propelled. I propelled and propelled. I felt trularity inside my head moving slowly through the passage provided (stained like the caves of Lascaux with garlic, antihistamines, Berloiz, a history, a history) toward its debut on the world stage. Past my teeth, with their little brown sweaters knitted of gin and cigar smoke, toward its leap to critical scrutiny. Past my lips, with their tendency to flake away in cold weather—


Donald Barthelme


#language #speech #truth #life

Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.


Lemony Snicket


#symbols #love

In this sleepless night, as the darkness advances, look up at the sky and somehow remember that somewhere in this wide world, there are always people who love you, and people who need you. Because every person can't go on living alone.


Ai Yazawa


#kagen-no-tsuki #remember #love

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.


Robert Herrick


#love #tears #tomgue #true #words

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.


Simon Van Booy


#language #silence #love

there is [...] a last even of last times of saying if you do not love me I shall not be loved if I do not love you I shall not love


Samuel Beckett


#love #love

I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.


Virginia Woolf


#love #love






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