SONTAG, Susan. Sobre fotografia. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2010. p. 13.

      A humanidade permanece, de forma impenitente, na caverna de Platão, ainda se regozijando, segundo seu costume ancestral, com meras imagens da verdade.

Diálogo

      "Você se casou?"
      "Não tiveram tempo..."


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QUINTANA, Mario. Caderno H. São Paulo: Glogo, 2006. p. 162.

Dolorosa interrogação

      Por que será que a gente vive chorando os amigos mortos e não aguenta os que continuam vivos?


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QUINTANA, Mario. Caderno H. São Paulo: Globo, 2006. p. 183.

And death shall have no dominion

And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.


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THOMAS, Dylon. Collected poems 1934-1953. London: Phoenix Books, 2005. p. 56.

Meio-dia

Meio-dia. Um canto da praia sem ninguém.
O sol no alto, fundo, enorme, aberto,
Tornou o céu de todo o deus deserto.
A luz cai implacável como um castigo.
Não há fantasmas nem almas,
E o mar imenso solitário e antigo
Parece bater palmas.


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ANDRESEN, Sophia de Mello Breyner. Mar. Lisboa: Caminho, 2004. p. 17.