Peace of mind fell through a grating in the sidewalk
where it lay visible for a few hours
and then it went away.

- John Ashbery
an eternity of silence
- john ashbery
Don't give up. It's too soon. Things break. Yes, they fail
or they are anchored up ahead, but no one can see that far.

- John Ashbery
too anxious to be fully aware
- john ashbery
I saw it coming and forgot 
to duck.

- John Ashbery
Better the long way home, than home; better an unlit fire
than the frozen mantelpiece. Better toys than a blanket
of stars waiting for you upstairs. "Bankruptcy, ma'am: I'm
better at it than most. It definitely needs more salt."

- John Ashbery
The pain of here contraindicates pleasant dreams of there,
though one could be forgiven for wishing things otherwise.

- John Ashbery
You enabled me to live for a few months
without needing a religion

- Yehuda Amichai
Once we talked about changes.
To speak about changes was to speak love.

- Yehuda Amichai
You are beautiful, like prophecies
and sad, like those that come true

- Yehuda Amichai
L'amour c'est l'homme inachevé
- Samuel Beckett
Organize a life,
NO,
forget that one is living

- Antonin Artaud
Spoken language evolved to sound like nature
- Mark Changizi (1h28min)
Liberdade positiva e negativa de Isaiah Berlin por Luiz Felipe Pondé
- Linhas Cruzadas (13min25s)
Minha mãe diz que eu não faço nada. Como não? Eu amo.
- Luiz Felipe Ponde cita Werther em Linhas Cruzadas
ANDRESA BONI
Para os artistas e pensadores do movimento romântico, iniciado no século XVII, o conceito de liberdade estava ligado à subjetividade, às emoções, à individualidade. A liberdade romântica poderia ser entendida como transgressora, Pondé?

LUIZ FELIPE PONDÉ
Muito. Inclusive o movimento romântico é muito responsável por fetichizar a transgressão como liberdade. O movimento romântico é de mal-estar com a modernização. Então, a liberdade que os românticos defendem, de cara, é a liberdade de "eu não ter que ser moderno", no sentido de ser eficiente, produtivo, quantitativo, funcional; porque este conjunto de funções vai convalescendo na modernização para se transformar em um verdadeiro contrato social prático que a gente sente na pele até hoje: tem que produzir, tem que bater meta, tem que entregar, tem que ter custos. Os românticos se sentem exilados do mundo, pois eles se sentem pessoas de um outro que acabou - apesar deles serem deste, porque eles vivem nesta época. Isso é um fenômeno moderno, de qualquer jeito.

Today I have much work to do:
I must finally kill my memory,
I must, so my soul can turn to stone,
I must learn to live again

- Anna Akhmatova
I did not find out if you were a friend or a foe
- Anna Akhmatova
everything suddenly seems paler, older
- anna akhmatova
in patterned silence
- anna akhmatova
For a long time I did not dare to trust myself
- Anna Akhmatova
my useless sadness
- anna akhmatova
Cardinal Wolsey used to say: "Show your power by your absence".
- Cromwell in Wolf Hall, S02E03
I met a man a dying man and I said me too.
I met a dead man and I said me too. Must be
dead cuz the living can't meet the dead and he
said me too.

- Diane Seuss
Heavy with memory's tonnage
- Daine Seuss
I wish I was less
- Diane Seuss
GRACE
Pinky, what are you doing?

PINKY
I'm looking for something.

GRACE
What?

PINKY
I don't know.


Memoir of a Snail, 2024


I always wondered what your greatest fear would be. Now I have seen it. It's not that no one will hear you. It's that they will hear you and just won't care.

- Desmond in Dune: Prophecy, S01E02
economics now, love later
- lynn pedersen
he says he is free and proud
- michel houellebecq
we inhabit absence
-  michel houellebecq
A love. Only love. Violent and definitive. Broken.
- Michel Houellebecq
useless landscapes of silence
- michel houellebecq
I desire nothing more than peace without victory
-  Michel Houellebecq
the unloved body dying without mystery
- michel houellebecq
utterly indifferent eyes
- michel houellebecq
for as long as you're not there, I wait, I hope for you
- Michel Houellebecq
words of love leaving traces
- michel houellebecq
we are prisioners of our transparency
- michel houellebecq
The shrimp in the rubbish-bin
Kingsley Amis

I lived in my own world of sea
  Till someone came and caught me,
Boiled me and sent me to a shop
  Where someone came and bought me.
I ask you, human beings all,
   Was that the way to treat me,
To do to me what you have done
   And then not even eat me?
I ain't thinking 'bout you

New approach needed (excerpt)
Kingsley Amis

Should you revisit us,
Stay a little longer,
And get to know the place.
Experience hunger,
Madness, disease and war.
You heard about them, true,
The last time you came here;
It's different having them.
And what about a go
At love, marriage, children?
All good, but bringing some
Risk of remorse and pain
And fear of an odd sort:
A sort one should, again, 
Feel, not just hear about,
To be qualified as
A human-race expert.
On local life, we trust
The resident witness,
Not the royal tourist.
the mind will take surgery
- kingsley amis
the eyes that looked good-bye
- kingsley amis
o que é o tempo:

   Air = silence, ductility, power of fire,
ubiquity, indispensable food of a supreme matter,
indispensable ingredient, docility, obedience, force,
pressure of force, it goes everywhere, dominates
everything, it is the ultimate Virtue.

- Antonin Artaud
O Machado é o antídoto contra você se transformar numa pessoa que acha que é muito boa, que tem absoluta certeza das ideias que você tem na cabeça, que você pode ter certeza do que você pensa à sua volta.

- Luiz Felipe Pondé sobre Machado de Assis em Linhas Cruzadas
I ken

Outlander, S07E09


I know I know I know I I know
  
It is terrible to battle against love
With sleeping pills. What have we come to!

- Yehuda Amichai
Take a rest from smiling.
- Yehuda Amichai
no volume máximo

"For tomorrow"

And as we stray further from love
We multiply the words,
Words and sentences long and orderly.
Had we remained together
We could have become a silence.

- Yehuda Amichai
I know that she knows.
They think she doesn't, but know otherwise.
She knows.
- Yehuda Amichai

She knows. She knows. She knows.
More than forgetting.
The very language of forgotten.

- Yehuda Amichai
Eye examination
Yehuda Amichai

Go back a bit. Close your left eye.
Still?
Go back a bit further. The wall has moved on.
What do you see?
What do you recognize in the dimness?
I remember a lovely song that went...
Now? What do you see now?
Still?–All the time.
Don't leave me. Please. Please.
You're not leaving.
I'm not.
Close one eye. Speak in a loud voice.
I can't hear—I'm already far away.
What do you recognize? What do you see?

Close one sad eye.
Yes.
Close the other sad eye. Yes.
I can see now.

And nothing else.
A pity. We were such a good
And loving invention.

- Yehuda Amichai
like letters with no addresses
- yehuda amichai
And what I shall never in the world return to
And look at, I am to love forever.

- Yehuda Amichai
I am tired,
My bed is my kingdom.

My sleep is just,
My dream is my verdict.

I hung my clothes on a chair
For tomorrow.

- Yehuda Amichai
i am so much more than my
anxieties, my mistakes, my ums,
my ahs

- fariha rósín
what is it to be, and not to be?
to be two things at once,
bifurcated at the root, like Janus

- Fariha Rósín
i come undone, like yarn
- fariha rósín
there are those who will
intentionally misunderstand you
in order to
willfully hate you

- fariha rósín
it hurts it hurts it hurts
- fariha rósín
my greed for love, 
for my own perfection,
reeks of desperation

- fariha rósín
i am a self, yes
though sometimes it's hard
to believe
i am a body

- fariha rósín
a fog 
of longing

- fariha rósín
i crouched towards
the punishing hunger inside

- fariha rósín
acutely sensitive
- alexander blok
I wait and wait in silence, yearning and loving.
- Alexander Blok
So do I



Wolf Hall, S02E02


You, invincibly yourself,
Have nothing left to say.

- Adrienne Rich
Remember in grad school, I wrote that paper on Capgras syndrome? It's this disorder where the people you're closest to all seem to have been replaced by impostors. But it's really you. You are the impostor. It's a kind of dissociation. You suffer a shock to your reality and, suddenly, you're on the outside looking in. And that's me.

- Eli in Before, S01E01
Sometimes pus
Sometimes poetry

- Yehuda Amichai
Take me.
- Yehuda Amichai
beyond the clearing forest
depois da estrada
was another forest
começa uma grande avenida

- yehuda amichai & rita lee
Indeed

Dune: Prophecy, S01E01


I have inhaled impossibility
- Adrienne Rich
I've fallen from life, friend
- Rabindranath Tagore
Without taking
I've accepted.

- Tukaram
i eat god
i drink god
i sleep
on god
i buy god
i count god
i deal
with god
god is here
god is there
void is not
devoid of god
jani says:
god is within
god is without
and moreover
there's god to spare

- janabai
When one looks beyond the void,
There is not even a void left.
The one who sees keeps what's seen
In one's own place.

- Muktabai
joyous and silent
- lal ded
My soul melts in anguish—
he cares not
if I live or die.

- Āṇṭāḷ
JAKE
Of course, now I'm contradicting myself.

SILVA
To your contradictions, then.               
[raise glasses]

Tell me what you saw, I will wait.
- Czeslaw Milosz
Moments from yesterday and from centuries ago—
a sword blow, the painting of eyelashes before a mirror
of polished metal, a lethal musket shot, a caravel
staving its hull agains a reef—they dwell in us,
waiting for a fulfillment.

- Czeslaw Milosz
For where we come from there is no division
into Yes and No, into is, was, and will be.

- Czeslaw Milosz

Megalopolis, 2024


I used to be inexorable,
But now I am elusive.

- Ted Berrigan
The light
Ted Berrigan

I cannot reach it.
.
.
.
.
.
                                    insouciant
.
.
.
.
.
- ted berrigan
Here I am again.
Show me what to do,
help me to do it.

- Ted Berrigan
no volume máximo

experience untaught me the world
- odysseas elytis
Don't worry since what pain subtracts from you
it adds to you O man

- Odysseas Elytis
The law I am will not subdue me.
- Odysseas Elytis
Sweetheart do not love too long:
I loved long and long
And grew to be out of fashion

- William Butler Yeats
O thought
- William Butler Yeats
The dews drop slowly and dreams gather
- William Butler Yeats
Be you still, be you still, trembling heart
- William Butler Yeats
Up is waiting
Between is barely there
Down is alive
Now is spinning
It's a quick spin
Nevertheless

- Ted Berrigan
"Hello"
originally
meant
"Be whole"

- Ted Berrigan
some go on
- ted berrigan
I'M HERE
- ted berrigan
            everything is up in the air
especially us, who are me

- ted berrigan
o novinho me olhou...

and then November, loneliness, tristesse
- gottfried benn
so many words believed
- gottfried benn
The song I always sing to myself

ANDRESA BONI
A busca pela redenção é um bom conselho na vida?

LUIZ FELIPE PONDÉ
Olha, a busca de redenção é, sem dúvida. Mas o problema é que não é você que a encontra, é ela que te acha—e sempre no meio da dor; o que ninguém gosta hoje em dia. As promessas são de paraísos. Seja redimido e seja feliz: uma coisa não tem nada a ver com a outra. Zero a ver. A vida é brutal.

Love has more than one dimension. Love has long claws.
- Misia in The Decameron, S01E08
I can throw off my rings. Or my fingers.
-  Marina Tsvetaeva
Your face
your warmth
your shoulder

where did they go?

- Marina Tsvetaeva
Life has no eternal things.
- Marina Tsvetaeva
You loved me. And your lies had their own probity.
- Marina Tsvetaeva
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
                                           j;u;n;g;l;e
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
- Aram Saroyan
Facts
Aram Saroyan

Tell me anything
I knew it

What a coincidence
it always is

I recognized you
the minute I saw you
My friends one by one
lose me
or I them
today I didn't speak to anyone

- Aram Saroyan
entre desejo 
e espasmo
entre potência
e existência

- t.s. eliot
Acalentando a metafísica.
- T.S. Eliot
Silence draped the walls.
- Gulzar
I have been wandering 
for ages
like a tumbling moment
torn out of time.

- Gulzar
Endlessly, silently.
- Gulzar
My hands tingle
at the memory
of your touch.

- Gulzar
Why don't you say something?
- Gulzar
Something leaves my body,
Something sinks in my soul.

Am I sad? 
Am I serene?
I don't know.

- Gulzar
Difícil dizer amor quando se ama
- Hilda Hilst
Conheço as conveniências da retina.
- Hilda Hilst
Não há silêncio bastante
Para o meu silêncio.

-  Hilda Hilst
Amo e conheço.
- Hilda Hilst
O que nos mata
São as coisas nascendo

- Hilda Hilst
Te ocultaste.
- Hilda Hilst
Sunlight
Across mouldy pits
Of yesterday

- Langston Hughes
The drip drip drip
   Of monotony

- Langston Hughes
In danger of touching a happiness
- Odysseas Elytis
Bird weren't you the moment of joy that never rests?
- Odysseas Elytis
Whatever I hold by touch nourishes me
- Odysseas Elytis

Joker: Folie à Deux, 2024


A nossa natureza [humana] é desamparada.
- Sigmund Freud por Tiago Freitas em Linhas Cruzadas
Todo desejo é triste.
- Nelson Rodrigues por Luiz Felipe Pondé em Linhas Crusadas
Quem gosta de sofrimento é masoquista. E sofrimento você não precisa gostar, 
ele vai te achar. Não tem jeito.

- Luiz Felipe Ponde em Linhas Cruzadas
Nós, seres humanos, somos ambivalentes.
- Luiz Felipe Pondé em Linhas Cruzadas
KATE
Hey, maybe you should tell me what the fuck's actually going on. The part you left out.

HAL
Stop it.

KATE
Maybe it's OK for me to know.

HAL
I didn't do this to you when you kept things in the vault.

KATE
Why did you never ask me?

HAL
Because I trusted you.

KATE
I don't trust you. I don't. DO YOU TRUST YOU?

The Diplomat, S02E04


P.S. Kate, c'est moi!
I can relate to that




Disclaimer, S01E06


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