O Santo Agostinho falava da concupiscência—que é esse desejo contínuo de se sentir atraído por determinadas coisas. O mundo moderno é um gigantesco contrato infinito de concupiscência.

- Luiz Felipe Pondé, Linhas Cruzadas (23/07/2026)
THAÍS
O excesso de linguagem produz uma escassez de significado?

PONDÉ
Com certeza.

Linhas Cruzadas (23/04/2026)
We dream of  lost vocabularies, and from nowhere,
a word is worth a thousand pictures.
What you say doesn’t have to be true.
It only has to be imaginable. 

- David Kirby
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.
- Wallace Stevens
I think language is more than capable
of looking out for itself, don’t you? I mean, when was 
the last time you looked at the list of synonyms for
baffled? They’re among the best in the English language: 
puzzled, nonplused, discombobulated, flummoxed, stumped, 
fogged, bewildered, buffaloed.

- David Kirby
Like a door
the body opened and
the soul looked out.
Timidly at first, then
less timidly
until it was safe.
Then in hunger it ventured.
Then in brazen hunger,
then at the invitation
of any desire.

The balled
Pulp of your heart
Confronts its small
Mill of silence

- Sylvia Plath
To be both author of
this statue, and the statue itself.

- Frank Bidart
You wear your body as if without
illusions. 

- Frank Bidart
The poem is a veil
Frank Bidart

V  E  I  L,—as if silk that you in fury must thrust repeatedly
high at what the eye, your eye, naked cannot see
catches, clinging to its physiognomy.
Reality is not, reality must be sought and won.
- Paul Celan
Frank Bidart

Whatever lies still uncarried from the abyss within
me as I die dies with me.
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
- Hegel

The way to approach freedom
was to acknowledge necessity
- Frank Bidart

P.S. Bidart recasts Hegel's philosophical proposition as an ethics of acknowledgment, shifting the emphasis from conceptual recognition to existential acceptance.
with an interest, and regard, and affection
- frank bidart
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