The Alphabet in the Park Quotes

“I am beginning to despair
and can see only two choices:
either go crazy or turn holy.”
― Adélia Prado, The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems

“Night! Make yourself useful and cover me with sleep.
Me and the thought of death just can't get used to each other.
I'll tremble with fear until the end.
And meanwhile, everything is so small.
Compared to my heart's desire,
the sea is a drop.”
― Adélia Prado, The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems

“How lovely you are!
I want to excavate you until I find
where you keep so much feeling.”
― Adélia Prado, The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems

“Suffering belongs to no language.”
― Adélia Prado, The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems

“I want passion from life.”
― Adélia Prado, The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems

“Day escapes me, the hour, all the hours;
I write a poem and delude myself that I've escaped sadness.”
― Adélia Prado, The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems

“All I could offer, unblemished, were
my tears in response to beauty or fatigue.”
― Adélia Prado, The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems

“I sleep a drunken sleep,
judging the beauty of the world negligible,
craving something that neither dies nor withers.”
― Adélia Prado, The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems

“He looked like an angel, speaking of wisdom. . .
Helios, I called him, you're that luminescent,
your body acting out your spirit.”
― Adélia Prado, The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems

“All my life I've resisted Plato, with his broad shoulders,
his crippled Republic where poets are exiled.”
― Adélia Prado, The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems

“Love has rhythms which are not those of sadness:
the shape of waves, impulse, running water.”
― Adélia Prado, The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems

“If you're not careful, love will catch you,
eat you up, drench you.”
― Adélia Prado, The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems

“Poets before me have cried, and better, and more beautifully,
and more deeply, and not just for the death of the king,
but for mine, yours, their own,
for the miserable condition of being human.”
― Adélia Prado, The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems

“I want love, superior love.
I can tolerate only seven sorrows.”
― Adélia Prado, The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems

“I want something sweet like that,
something which says: that's her.
So I won't be afraid of posing for a picture,
so I'll be handed a poem on parchment.”
― Adélia Prado, The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems

“Tyrant purple goes straight for the heart,
crazy for dawn.”
― Adélia Prado, The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems