A List Of Poems That Erode My Heart, Bit By Bit.

by zeewipark

“We dug a heart out of a heart and our mutual pain molded us into lovers in the evening fires of autumn.”

— Jovan Kotevski, from Love and Death; The Fourth Letter; Reading the Ashes: An Anthology of the Poetry of Modern Macedonia (ed. by Milne Holton & Graham W. Reid)

“Aurélie Dupont, like I said, I love her, she is one of my favorite dancers in the world. I watched the video of her and when I see her dance, I see the expression of Ghislaine. Everything Ghislaine asked, Aurélie does. It’s interesting, because I could see Ghislaine’s expression in Aurélie’s Sylph. If you look at her Sylph, you see a real woman who talks to James, who is not just kind and good, but at times can be strict, angry, constantly changing attitude. This is very important as this is what makes it a very interesting role.”

- Evgenia Obraztsova on Aurélie Dupont’s La Sylphide (x)

I care for you more than I care for your caring of me. I care for you so much that I will hurt you to see you well, that I will put foulness into your mouth because I know it to be medicine, that I will take your scowls and hatreds and fold them against my heart like a locket full of hair because I will know you to be well.

Amal El-Mohtar, from The Honey Month; “Day 27: Leatherwood Honey”

Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

I do not want to be a person.                               I want to be unbearable.

1. anne carson | 2. nick alm | 3. ocean vuong | 4. nick alm | 5. franz kafka | 6. nick alm | 7. emil ferris | 8. nick alm | 9. clarice lispector | 10. nick alm | 11. mary shelley | 12. nick alm | 13. sandra cisneros

Salman Toor, Three Friends in a Cab, 16 x 20 inches, 2021

Laodamia, George William Joy