Day after day I would climb up to the top floor of the palace and look out over the harbour. Day after day there was no sign. Sometimes there were ships, but never the ship I longed to see.

- Penelope in Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad

para o mundo

que eu quero descer

fetch the bolt cutters

i've been here too long

- rita lee & fiona apple

But I know if I hate you for hating me

I will have entered the endless race

- Fiona Apple

There is

only one

true thing:

in the self

a weight,

a small

stone.

- Paul Klee

Myself,

for instance: an entire dramatic company.

- Paul Klee

sometimes you just have to shrug;

put the record on repeat.

- uyen hua

Sokrates to his lover

Plato

As I kissed Agathon my soul swelled to my lips,

where it hangs, pitiful, hoping to leap across.

I shall love as long as there is breath in me

and care

I say I have been a strong lover

hurt

bitter

and know this

no matter

I shall love

- Sappho

I want to fight you

just as when I am thirsty I want to drink

- Archilochos

Go to the world

Where is it

Go there

- Brenda Hillman

comme au milieu d'un adieu silencieux

I live you so much

- Kevin Young

Early blues

Kevin Young

Once I ordered a pair of shoes

  But they never came.

hell & heal me

- kevin young

Moon has set

and Pleiades: middle

night, the hour goes by,

alone I lie.

- Sappho