Anyone you love will leave

was what you proved to me the year you did.

- Marilyn Hacker

Will she be in love with me when I’m fifty?

- Marilyn Hacker

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

- Simone Weil

How to depict attention that surveys

ground for reflexive confidence. Delays

are legion. 

- Marilyn Hacker

We need a breather from the personal.

- Marilyn Hacker

If I fail friendship, what felicity

left? Words crystallize despite our lives, select

emblems from hesitations and suspect

feelings. 

- Marilyn Hacker

Unsubtle truth can blanket subtlety.

- Marilyn Hacker

Reading poetry

we expect truth, you said, and I agree.

Truth, in particulars, I can define.

- Marilyn Hacker

You happened to me. I was happened to

like an abandoned building by a bull-

dozer, like the van that missed my skull

happened a two-inch gash across my chin.

You went as deep down as I’d ever been.

You were inside me like my pulse. A new-

born flailing toward maternal heartbeat through

the shock of cold and glare: when you were gone,

swaddled in strange air, I was that alone

again, inventing life left after you.

- Marilyn Hacker

Lo que no duele ha dolido.

- Luis Muñoz

I practice silence. I am reading about men who strove to lose affections.

- Richie Hofmann

 I love you because you can’t be destroyed by love

- Richie Hofmann

Eros enters, where shame had lived.

- Richie Hofmann

O Nietzsche é um filósofo romântico. Um filósofo romântico é meio que o oposto do estoicismo, porque ele valoriza o pathos, a paixão. E uma das questões centrais do estoicismo é o que se chama apatheia estoica, é manter o pathos longe. Então, do ponto de vista do Nietzsche, os estoicos se defendem da vida — porque ficam tentando construir uma paz interior que, para o Nietzsche, não significa nada. Paz interior? Que me venham as paixões.

- Luiz Felipe Pondé, Linhas Cruzadas (09/07/2026)