May 2010
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Love Song
Rainer Maria Rilke
How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn’t touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things? I would like to shelter it, among remote lost objects, in some dark and silent place that doesn’t resonate when your depths resound. Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin’s bow, which draws one voice out of two...
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“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
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KT Tunstall - Through The Dark
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Hope
Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I’ve heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.
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Melancholia
Charles Bukowski
the history of melancholia includes all of us.
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Mason Jennings - Be Here Now
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Lejanía
Alejandra Pizarnik Mi ser henchido de barcos blancos. Mi ser reventando sentires. Toda yo bajo las reminiscencias de tus ojos. Quiero destruir la picazón de tus pestañas. Quiero rehuir la inquietud de tus labios. Porqué tu visión fantasmagórica redondea los cálices de estas horas?
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“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring...”
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De Profundis
Christina Rossetti Oh why is heaven built so far, Oh why is earth set so remote? I cannot reach the nearest star That hangs afloat. I would not care to reach the moon, One round monotonous of change; Yet even she repeats her tune Beyond my range. I never watch the scatter’d fire Of stars, or sun’s far-trailing train, But all my heart is one desire, And all in vain: For I am bound with...
