Nothing is anything if you say that it is
It is quiet and not a sound

- Dorothea Lasky
The Tao that can be spoken is not the constant Tao.
The name that can be named is not the constant name.

And you aren’t even thinking of me
- Dorothea Lasky
Brief reflection on the word Pain
Miroslav Holub

Wittgenstein says: the words ‘It hurts’ have replaced
     tears and cries of pain. The word ‘Pain’
     does not describe the expression of pain but replaces it.
     Thus it creates a new behaviour pattern
     in the case of pain.

The word enters between us and the pain
     like a pretence of silence.
     It is a silencing. It is a needle
     unpicking the stitch
     between blood and clay.

The word is the first small step
     to freedom
     from oneself. 

In case others     
are present. 
The silence was inviolable
like the surface of a mirror.

- Miroslav Holub
Go and open the door.
    Maybe outside there’s
    a tree, or a wood,
    a garden,
    or a magic city.

- Miroslav Holub
You ask the secret.
It has just one name:
again.

- Miroslav Holub
You only love
when you love in vain.

- Miroslav Holub
Pray for one thing:
deep earnestness- that which proved fatal to many 
But pray for one more thing more,
a thing that only the strong are granted:
taciturnity of heart.

- Karin Boye
‘Perspective brings significance,’ we say
- Philip Larkin
All day I tried to distinguish
need from desire.

- Louise Glück
If I could write to you
about this emptiness

- Louise Glück
On depression
AR

They look at me as a was.
Not an is, nor even a to be.
A done me. Or worse—
a forgotten I.
Paralysis, or peace,
Whichever

- Louise Glück
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