A vida tal como nos coube é muito difícil, traz-nos demasiadas dores, decepções, tarefas insolúveis. Para suportá-la, não podemos dispensar paleativos.
John Singer Sargent, Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast, 1882
Calling things as they are (excerpt)
Ada Limón
I like to call things as they are. Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn't know then that it wasn't even love that I was interested in, but my own suffering. I thought suffering kept things interesting. How funny that I called it love and the whole time it was pain.
— Indique-me sua direção, onde você se encontra agora?
— Estou exatamente na esquina da Rua Walk com a Rua Don't Walk.
- Waly Salomão
Param os meus olhos quando penso em ti
- Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
a sofrer meus ais ou menos
- paulo leminski
como dói esse silêncio
- paulo leminski
Andrew Wyeth, Pentecost, 1989
let us dance
Eu nunca pedi nada porque era
Completa a minha esperança
- Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Mãos
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Côncavas de ter
Longas de desejo
Frescas de abandono
Consumidas de espanto
Inquietas de tocar e não prender.
A raiz da paisagem foi cortada.
Tudo flutua ausente e dividido,
Tudo flutua sem nome e sem ruído.
- Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
ELIZABETH
No matter what life has in store for me, I'll always love him.
CARA
You won't. You won't. You'll love memories until you make enough new ones. And then one day, you won't remember him at all. And that's alright. That's fine, that's life.