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The Galloping Hour: French Poems
Alejandra Pizarnik
Top 10 Best Quotes
“All night I flee from someone. I lead the chase, I lead the fugue. I sing a song of mourning. Black birds over black shrouds. My brain cries.”
“the sense of things remains in the intensity of their names”
“night opens I enter night shuts I don't leave”
“Naked. Fatigue of the body transparent as a glass-tree. Near yourself you hear the brutal rumor of inextricable desire. Night blindly mine. You're farther gone than me. Horror of checking for you in the screams of my poem. Your name is the disease of things at midnight. They had promised me one silence. Your face is closer to me than my own. Phantom memory. How I'd love to kill you —”
“but the day rains over the emptiness of everything”
“Your eyes begin in my eyes which no longer see you. Begin in my voice which no longer speaks to you. Die out in my hands which no longer touch you. Your eyes are inscribed in my flesh. No one can bear to see me now. Sinister tattoo. I do the rain, I do the sun. For want of your eyes in my eyes.”
“Sometimes we suffer too much reality in the space of a single night.”
“Don't forget your eyes because I inhabit them”
“All night I hear the voice of someone seeking me out. All night you abandon me slowly like the water that sobs slowly falling. All night I write luminous messages, messages of rain, all night someone checks for me and I check for someone.”
“you don't speak you no longer speak to yourself even the she in the mirror has disappeared”
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