words of resonance

[wolfofdunwall]

Let me tell you things can happen in the years.
— Maureen Alsop, ‘Thumomancy’

you think, even before it is half-over,
that your cycle is an end
but you repeat your foolish circling–again, again, again;
again, the steel sharpened on the stone;
again, the pyramid of skulls
— H.D., 'The Flowering of the Rod'

I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away.
— Angela Carter, 'The Bloody Chamber'

When the apparition has whittled down your resistance, then you are less of who you are than you used to be.
— Elizabeth Robinson, On Ghosts

But I listen to myself
for hours: trying not to sound desperate, but beginning to
repeat things, because that’s how important
things are starting to seem.
— Olena Kalytiak Davis, ‘Another Underwater Conversation’

I curse the knowing of you.
— Euripides, Hekabe [tr. Anne Carson]

Will you suffocate me with your strangeness, though I’m
miserable as I am?
I liked hell; could I possibly like mercy better?
— Alice Notley, 'Living On Brackish Water'