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“I run no more; the winds dance me.”
― Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems
― Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems
“Death is bad. The gods
must have thought so,
for it if were a good thing,
they then, too, would die.”
― Sappho: The Greek Poems
must have thought so,
for it if were a good thing,
they then, too, would die.”
― Sappho: The Greek Poems
“And the Fates [Night] bore, and merciless punishing Furies who prosecute the transgressions of men and gods—never do the goddesses cease from their terrible wrath until they have paid the sinner his due.”
― Theogony / Works and Days
― Theogony / Works and Days
“Constant motion camouflages the extent to which I'm alien even to myself.”
― Places I've Taken My Body: Essays
― Places I've Taken My Body: Essays
“Yet the longing to be understood by a man down to the deepest, most secret recesses of one's soul, to be recognized by him as a striving human being, repeatedly decided matters. And repeatedly disappointment ensued all too swiftly, since the friend saw in me only the feminine element which he tried to mold into a willing sounding board to his own ego. So repeatedly the moment inevitably arrived in which I had to shake off the chains of community with an aching heart but with a sovereign, uninfluenced will. Then I was again alone.”
― The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman
― The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman
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