Posts tagged "women" — Page 10

Wolves & Women

Wolves and women
have this in common.
We have been hunted
without mercy for our wild.
And yet we have never
stopped fighting back.
Tooth and nail.
Fang and claw.
~Unknown

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Minimalism II

No to transcendence and spiritual values,
heroic scale, anguished decisions,
historicizing narrative, valuable artifact,
intelligent structure, interesting visual experience
~Robert Morris

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Some Generous Place

If I had grown in some generous place—
if my hours had opened in ease—
I would make You a lavish banquet.
My hands wouldn’t clutch at You like this,
so needy and tight.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

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Determination

Baby Suggs laughed, clear as anything. “You mean I never told you nothing about Carolina? About your daddy? You don’t remember nothing about how come I walk the way I do and about your mother’s feet, not to speak of her back? I never told you all that? Is that why you can’t walk down the steps? My Jesus my.”

But you said there was no defense.

“There ain’t.”

Then what do I do?

“Know it, and go on out the yard. Go on.”

~Toni Morrison, Beloved

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Redeemed

nachküssen: German. A kiss making up for kisses that have been missed or omitted or lost.

 

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