Tomorrow Either I Will Murder You Or You Will Rinse The Knife In Water

How much more drama can one body take? I wake up in the morning and relinquish my dreams. I go to bed with my beloved. I am delirious with my tenderness. Once, I was brave, but I have grown so weary of danger. I am soundlessness amid the constant sounds of war.

Ada Limón, “I Have Wanted Clarity in Light of My Lack of Light”

‘Agamemnon,’ Aeschylus (translated by Anne Carson)

“There is only now; and no matter how this war came about, no matter how it is run, it belongs to us. ‘Because I am involved in mankind’. And one must remain involved in all mankind, even uselessly, and even if one is intellectually conditioned to doubt and despair. Otherwise one might as well be dead.”

— Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment?

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Detail - Angels “Ghent Altarpiece” finished 1432, Jan van Eyck.

how deeply faithless we are, which is

to say: how true we are to ourselves

- Marina Tsvetaeva

The first rule of war is sympathy with the enemy.

Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

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

There is a solitude in this world

I cannot pierce. I would die for it.

- Ada Limón, Drowning Creek

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