when mary shelley said “i am unstable, sometimes melancholy, and have been called on some occasions imperious; but i never did an ungenerous act in my life. i sympathise warmly with others, and have wasted my heart in their love”
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I am a kiss, a shadow with a shadow.
A kiss, pain in pain.
Miguel Hernández, tr. by Robert Bly, from “Before Hatred, Thirsting,”
Lie down in a garden and extract as much sweetness as possible.
There’s a lot of sweetness in that.
Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenská written c. April 1920
The sea was good on her body; it was, for her unbearably erotic. She sunk into a sleep that smelled of nightflowers–
Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from “The Sleepwalker,”
Pain keeps bringing me back to myself,
Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from “The Sleepwalker,”
“And the moon bleeds over the water and you are not so far away that I can’t smell your hair in the drying breeze.”
— Zelda Fitzgerald, from a letter to Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Fall 1930.
“The softness in her face, the light in her eyes. A flash of genuine contact.”
— Susan Sontag, from “Death Kit,” published c. January 1967
when mary shelley said “for what have i to thank you? for disappointment, melancholy, and tears; for unknindness, a bleeding heart and despairing thoughts”
“This morning? So much in need of sun, pure air, exercise, food that whets the appetite, and the body of an ardent lover.”
— Susan Sontag, from “Death Kit,” published c. January 1967
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