THIS IS WHY
He will never be given to wonder much
if he was the mouth for some cruel force
that said it. But if he were
(this will comfort her) less than one moment
out of millions had he meant it.
So many years and so many turns
they had swerved around the subject.
And he will swear for many more
the kitchen and everything in it vanished --
the oak table, their guests, the refrigerator door
he had been surely propped against--
all changed to rusted ironwork and ash
except in the center in her linen caftan:
she was not touched.
He remembers the silence before he spoke
and her nodding a little,
as if in the meat of this gray waste
here was the signal
for him to speak what they had long agreed,
what somewhere they had prepared together.
And this one moment in the desert of ash
stretches into forever.
They had been having a dinner party.
She had been lonely.
A friend asked her almost joking
if she had ever felt really crazy,
and when she started to unwind her answer
in long, lovely sentences like scarves within her
he saw this was the way
they could no longer talk together.
And that is when he said it,
in front of the guests,
because he couldn't bear to hear her.
And this is why the guests have left
and she screams as he comes near her.
Stichwörter: poetry crazy desperation connections
Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.
James ThurberStichwörter: morals fables desperation
That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.
Suzanne CollinsStichwörter: desperation
We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.
Tiffany MadisonStichwörter: love freedom work wit purity control chaos men-and-women practicality resistance desperation lover sensibility practical sensible prevent prevention lover-reborn practical-psychology practicality-for-intellectuals
I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.
Craig FergusonStichwörter: ambition desperation directing never-again
I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.
Albert CamusStichwörter: humor desperation
Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-PierreStichwörter: life pessimism death pessimistic desperation french-literature paul-et-virginie saint-pierre bernardin
The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.
Kate MortonStichwörter: confusion desperation personal-loss
Talvez os selvagens nunca abandonem o poder - afirmou Philip com ar de desalento. - Talvez a cobiça nunca deixe de pesar mais nos conselhos dos poderosos que a sabedoria; talvez o medo nunca deixe de vencer a compaixão na mente dum homem com uma espada empunhada.
Ken FollettStichwörter: desperation
I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation and what later came to be recognized and diagnosed as depression.
Sharon E. RaineyStichwörter: silence depression desperation
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