Alejandra Pizarnik Quotes

• I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings

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  Believe, Fire, Should Have

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• Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors

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  Mirrors, Blood, Lust

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• But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory. Never did anyone wish so hard not to grow old; I mean, to die. That is why, perhaps, she acted and played the role of Death. Because, how can Death possibly die?

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  Mean, Wish, Roles

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• You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began

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  Bird, Beaten, Built

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• An unchangeable colour rules over the melancholic: his dwelling is a space the colour of mourning. Nothing happens in it. No one intrudes. It is a bare stage where the inert I is assisted by the I suffering from that inertia. The latter wishes to free the former, but all efforts fail, as Theseus would have failed had he been not only himself but also the Minotaur; to kill him then, he would have had to kill himself

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  Dwelling, Space, Mourning

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