finita–la–commedia:

“I should not love my suffering because it is useful. I should love it because it is… We should seek neither to escape suffering nor to suffer less, but to remain untainted by suffering.”

— Simone Weil (1909-1943), from “Affliction”
in “Gravity and Grace”, translated by Emma Crawford and Mario von der Ruhr

ereiliv:

“I dream of rivers with a hundred mouths and mountains where the leaves turn over like silver fire.”

— Euripides, Bakkhai (trans. Anne Carson)

an-itinerant-poet:

Solstice, December 2018