love
Posts filed under love.
During the first part of your life
During the first part of your life, you only become aware of happiness once you have lost it. Then an age comes, a second one, in which you already know,…
Your only chance of survival
Your only chance of survival, if you are sincerely smitten, lies in hiding this fact from the woman you love, of feigning a casual detachment under all circumstances.
But just as I didn’t want to resent my kids
I also didn’t want to find myself too much in love with them. There are parents who don’t like to hear their little girl crying at night, at the vast…
A judgment that is necessarily hampered
A judgment that is necessarily hampered, bot only by the scope and limits of his imagination, but by the ever-changing measure of his doubt and self-esteem.
He stood over the body in the fading light
Adjusting the hair and putting the finishing touches to the simple toilet, doing all mechanically, with soulless care. And still through his consciousness ran an undersense of conviction that all…
Sometimes, when Chapuys has finished
digging up Walter’s bones and making his own life unfamiliar to him, he feels almost impelled to speak in defense of his father, his childhood. But it is no use…
Lyrical poetry is a realm in which any
statement immediately becomes truth. Yesterday the poet said life is a vale of tears; today he said life is a land of smiles; and he was right both times. There…
I knew that on the island one was driven
back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present, and then the past seemed ten…
When they leave the church, the last light is
vanishing into the sky, and a stray snowflake drifts along towards the south. They remount; it has been a long day; his clothes feel heavy on his back.