I am many separate things
that disagree with one another
and that is ok.

 translations of the same story
- jen campbell
I don’t know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

Jeanette Winterson
The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is “knowing thyself” as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory…. Therefore it is imperative at the outset to compile such an inventory.

- Antonio Gramsci
Você foi o único que fez com que eu me sentisse fraca.
Mas estranhamente eu me sinto confortável... como se eu pudesse aceitar essa fraqueza.

What do I have to say
to myself?

My username
is invalid.

- Rae Armantrout
Low sun illuminates
a row of amber
pill bottles,

half full.

- Rae Armantrout
Passing obliquely
through the interface,

desire is refracted.

Rae Armantrout
Vale do Silêncio
- Rashid
And to represent the storm accurately you must first show the clouds scattered and torn, and flying with the wind, accompanied by clouds of sand blown up from the sea shore, and boughs and leaves swept along by the strength and fury of the blast and scattered with other light objects through the air. […] Let the sea be rough and tempestuous and full of foam whirled among the lofty waves, while the wind flings the lighter spray through the stormy air, till it resembles a dense and swathing mist.

- Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, trans. Jean Paul Richter, vol. I, 1888, § 606, “How to Represent a Tempest.”
A friend is a second self. 
- Cicero 
All my life I’ve tried to lessen what stands 
between my heart and the world, between my 
mind and the sky, between my eye and your eye. 

Mark Nepo
They say I’m 
too quiet, but words 
taste like armor. 

Mark Nepo