Opal McCarthy
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“Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.”
― The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
― The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
“What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.”
― The Passion According to G.H.
― The Passion According to G.H.
“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― The Pleasure of the Text
― The Pleasure of the Text
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