“Deeper, much deeper, the fire purifies.”— Vicente Aleixandre, from A Longing for the Light: “Under the Ground”
“We are here for a short time: a few words, a few phrases, so little beneath the stars, nothing but this, amid all the rest. Blue in your mouth, until the very last hour.”
— Jean-Michel Maulpoix, from “The Blue Look”, A Matter of Blue: Poems (BOA Editions Ltd., 2005)
the relationship women have with their own reflection…beyond complex
Mirrors of Bergman from Kogonada, poetry Sylvia Plath
if our thoughts can be consistent with our emotions, our emotions seamlessly translated into words, our words realized with actions. so much (of love) is lost in what is unthought, unfelt, and unsaid.
