#dulce maría loynaz
“Poetry and love ask for patience. Love is waiting and then cutting yourself open. Poetry is cutting yourself open and then waiting.”—Dulce María Loynaz, from “Poem CXVII,” trans. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Prose Poems (First Archipelago, 2016)
“There is still one difference left between us. You have a tenderness grown weary and I have a weariness grown tender.”
—Dulce Maria Loynaz, Absolute Solitude
