Avatar
“Love opened a mortal wound. In agony, I worked the blade to make it deeper.”

Love Opened a Mortal Wound, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz - (1651-1695), tr. Joan Larkin and Jaime Manrique

Avatar
“Bilinguals overwhelmingly report that they feel like different people in different languages. It is often assumed that the mother tongue is the language of the true self. (…) But, it first languages are reservoirs of emotion, second languages can be rivers undammed, freeing their speakers to ride different currents.”

Love in Translation by Lauren Collins from the New Yorker, August 8 & 15, 2016  (via 3minho)

Avatar
reblogged
Avatar
lifeinpoetry

I crave a love that happens as sweetly

as it was named. If love must be swung,

let it soften. Not split.

Donte Collins, from “Prayer Severing the Cycle,” published in Poem-a-Day

Source: poets.org
You are using an unsupported browser and things might not work as intended. Please make sure you're using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge.