Landscape with Yellow Birds Quotes

“In the mirror your image has faded. I could no longer see you when I looked at myself.”
― José Ángel Valente, Landscape with Yellow Birds

“In the sand I draw a double parallel line as a sign of the infinite duration of this dream”
― José Ángel Valente, Landscape with Yellow Birds

“The bodies remained on the lonely side of love
as if negating each other without negating desire
and in this negotiation a knot stronger than themselves
indefinitely bound them together.

What did their eyes and their hands know,
or their skin, which held a body
against the breath of another, and gave birth to
that slow immobile light,
the solitary form of desire?”
― José Ángel Valente, Landscape with Yellow Birds