There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick. Annie Dillard
Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!
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Fernando Pessoa
The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain — and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.
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Ted Hughes
Eric has said that I carry close to my chest a ball of barbed wire that I sometimes throw at other people.
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Weike Wang
Relationships are messy and painful, and hard to maintain. It takes time build, but only seconds to destroy.
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Alexis Tiger
More Quotes By Annie Dillard
This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.
There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.
The open forgiveness in her eyes, the uncensored love, terrified me.
Nothing you could do would make me send you away. Nothing.
