Love does not

make me gentle or kind.

- Anne Carson

PYLADES 

I'll take care of you.

ORESTES 

It's rotten work.

PYLADES

Not to me. Not if it's you.

- Anne Carson

Caught between the tongue and the taste

- Anne Carson

There is no person without a world.

- Anne Carson

THESEUS

Stop. Give me your hand. I am your friend.

HERAKLES

I fear to stain your clothes with blood.

THESEUS

Stain them, I don't care.

- Anne Carson

You remember too much,

my mother said to me recently.

Why hold onto all that? And I said,

Where can I put it down?

- Anne Carson

A wound gives off its own light 

surgeons say. 

If all the lamps in the house were turned out 

you could dress this wound 

by what shines from it.

- Anne Carson

Don’t come. The pictures are fake,

Photoshopped stock foliage.

- Jason Stefanik

let’s not sleep yet

as long as the gentle music plays

and while we still have the chance

let's face the music and dance

- julia hartwig & irving berlin

Tell us we will respect the differences of others

carry out just laws

- Julia Hartwig

Everything to Measure

Julia Hartwig

Oh no—paradise is not disheveled nature

bearded unkempt pines shrubbery branches

blue-black colonies of berries

looking out with the eyes of hunted deer

Paradise is a garden

where everything is to measure

joy but not wildness

not despair but melancholy

It is the victory of order

So what if on gravel paths

you sometimes hear approaching steps

above which a body had no time to take shape

The Czech writer Hrabal said:

I have as much freedom as I take.

- Julia Hartwig

Higher and Higher

Julia Hartwig

   Born on a trash heap, victims of seven plagues, we

proclaim every day a victory.

   One more day. I am still alive.

   While the trash heap grows and lifts us up, toward

immortality.

O, white flowers of shadow, the wild glistening of the river!

- Julia Hartwig