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Poems in Flesh
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
~ Erica Jong
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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There was something beautifully lonely about Hemingway’s characters, they were like poems trapped in flesh.
~ Patti Smith
Like Patti’s own lyrics and poems, Hemingway’s stories pulse with what’s unsaid. The heartbreak in The Sun Also Rises. The quiet ache in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. The unspoken grief of The Snows of Kilimanjaro. These are not just men at war with the world, they’re men at war with memory, with meaning, with time.
Smith understood that real beauty in writing doesn’t come from how loud you can speak, but how deeply you can feel.
~ Lindita Odjoska
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To be authentic in this world is an act of courage…it also has a reward: freedom. And I, frankly, would rather lose everything than lose myself.
