"Everything fades away

Except for you, you, you"

Madonna

Two linen handkerchiefs

Jane Hirshfield

How can you have been dead twelve years

and these still

I know you think I’ve forgotten

Jane Hirshfield

but today

in rain

without coat without hat

A hand holds one power,

whose exercise requires the hand be empty.

- Jane Hirshfield

In praise of being peripheral

Jane Hirshfield

Without philosophy,

tragedy,

history,

a gray squirrel

looks

very busy.

Light as a soul

released

from a painting by Bosch,

its greens

and vermilions stripped off it.

He climbs a tree

that is equally ahistoric.

His heart works harder.

silence stitches itself

around hopes, thoughts, and words

- jane hirshfield

A cottony fate

Jane Hirshfield

Long ago, someone

told me: avoid or.

It troubles the mind

as a held-out piece of meat disturbs a dog.

Now I too am sixty.

There was no other life.

Relieved

f.s. yousaf

I am thankful for the ones

that have seen the most of me,

and stayed.

I am thankful for the ones

Who left

Before knowing all of me.

Every day I try to fight my own

brokenness. But once you are forgotten,

it’s not so bad: a heart broken

joins another chorus. Can you hear

the chorus speak? Can you bear

it? The words of apparitions do not belong

to a language. They flit over pines, meaningless,

and shed their skins in your hands.

- Sally Wen Mao

It is on the stage of contaminated desires that we are most pressed

to reconsider the politics of recognition.

- Anne Anlin Cheng

O essencial é saber ver,

Saber ver sem estar a pensar,

Saber ver quando se vê,

E nem pensar quando se vê,

Nem ver quando se pensa.

- Alberto Caeiro citado em Marmita (2024)

determinar o Não Eu por meio do Eu

- Byung-Chul Han, Filosofia do zen-budismo

O vazio zen-budista é mais vazio que o vazio de Heidegger.

- Byung-Chul Han, Filosofia do zen-budismo

La connaissance n’apporte pas la souffrance.

- Michel Houellebecq