"Amidst the clock, the typewriter and the silence there was an ear listening, large, pink, and dead."
"Amidst the clock, the typewriter and the silence there was an ear listening, large, pink and dead".
"Hear me with your whole body"
"But in fact she didn't see so much as hear the life inside her. She was fascinated by its noise- like the breathing of a tender child, by its sweet glow- like a newly-born plant"
"I see that I've never told you how I listen to music-I gently rest my hand on the record player and my hand vibrates, sending waves through my whole body: and so I listen to the electricity of the vibrations, the last substratum of reality's realm, and the world trembles inside my hands"
"I noticed a first rumble like that of a heart beating beneath the earth. I quietly put my ear to the ground and heard summer forcing its way in and my heart beneath the earth-" nothing! I said nothing!"- and I felt the patient brutality with which the closed earth was opening inside in birth, and I knew with what weight of sweetness the summer was ripening a hundred thousand oranges and I knew that the oranges were mine. Because that is what I wanted. "
"It's with such profound happiness. Such a hallelujah. Hallelujah, I shout, hallelujah merging with the darkest human howl of the pain of separation but a shout of diabolic joy. Because no one can hold me back now'" (Agua Viva, 1973)
"I enter the writing slowly as I once entered painting. It is a world tangled up in creepers, syllables, woodbine, colors and words- threshold of an ancestral cavern that is the womb of the world and from it I shall be born"
"She wasn't a woman, she existed and what she had inside her were movements lifting her always in transition. . . . (..) the long gestation of her childhood would end and from her painful immaturity her own being would burst forth, free at last, at last!"
"...because then I will live, only then will I live bigger than in my childhood, I will be as brutal and misshapen as a rock, I will be as light and vague as something felt and not understood, I will surpass myself in waves, "
"I will surpass myself in waves, ah, Lord, and may everything come and fall upon me, even the incomprehension of myself at certain white moments because all I have to do is comply with myself and then nothing will block my path until death-without-fear, from any struggle or rest I will rise up as strong and beautiful as a young horse."
"I can understand only what happens to me, but only what i understand happens"
"All sudden understanding is in the last analysis the revelation of a clear non-understanding."
"I am the priestess of a secret that i no longer know"
"In that last and so first hour too i shall invent your nameless presence and with you i shall start to die until i am able on my own not to exist"
"If i look into the darkness with a magnifying glass, will i see more than darkness?"
"Truth as a pretext for lying?"
"What i was experiencing in the present had already been conditioned in such a way that i could understand myself as a result."
"For the most part i lived inside a mirror"
"Through non-being in detail i proved to myself that i was"
"Every instant of lack of meaning is precisely the frightening certainty that it is there that meaning lies and that i not only can't reach it but don't want to because there are no guarantees"
"Only later, after seeing the secret, did i realize that i had already seen it"
"For years i had been judged only by my peers and by my own circle, which were in the final analysis, made by myself for myself"
"The room... was a violation of my quotation marks, the quotation marks that made me a reference to myself".
"In spite of having come into the room, i seemed to have come into a nothingness. Even inside it i somehow kept staying outside. As though it was not deep enough to hold me and left parts of me still in the hallway, in the greatest rejection i had ever experienced".
"Nowness brings no future: the future will be precisely a now again"
"I don't want to feel directly in my so delicate mouth the salt of the cockroach's eyes"
"I am the silence etched on a wall"
"I have a horror of the crocodile's silence, full of rows of scales."
