Look how much sadness you can make from showing sadness restrained.
- Heather Christle, The Crying Book
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
Anaïs Nin, Henry and June
To live in this tragedy without raptures
Alicja Rybałko, Curriculum Vitae tr. Regina Grol
free me from my longing
Anna Czekanowicz, tr. Regina Grol
You never refuse. You simply don't speak.
Alicja Rybałko, A Prayer for the Forbidden Fruit tr. Regina Grol
I look at you as if I were looking for the first time.
Adriana Szymańska, Ode to a Man tr. Regina Grol
Either she loves him, or she is resolved to.
Wisława Szymborska, Portrait of a Woman tr. Regina Grol
let yourself be a living part of death
Garous Abdolmalekian, Forest tr. Ahmed Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey
how deeply faithless we are, which is
to say: how true we are to ourselves
- Marina Tsvetaeva
We teeter / on the brink of time, you and I, he, she, / all of us, all so worthy of pity.
Maria Bigoszewska, tr. Regina Grol
I pray as if you existed.
Maria Bigoszewska, tr Regina Grol