The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness—

I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.

Isaac Rothe, Matthias

How could a soulmate not hear the heart beats, not smell the tears of a lover, however far he is from her?

Everything is figureoutable

Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.

Demons don't play by the rules. They lie and they cheat and they stab in the back.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough.

He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.

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