Absolute Solitude Quotes

“You have wings and I don’t. You flit through the air like a butterfly, while I go off to learn, from every last road on earth, what it means to be sad.”
― Dulce María Loynaz, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems

“...only love reveals, in a rapid flash of light, the beauty of a soul.”
― Dulce María Loynaz, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems

“There is still one difference left between us. You have a tenderness grown weary and I have a weariness grown tender.”
― Dulce María Loynaz, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems

“Even in your way of forgetting there is something beautiful. I thought all forgetting was darkness, but your forgetting is luminous, like a great radiance. Like the dawn wiping out the stars! — Dulce María Loynaz, from “Poem LXXII,” trans. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Prose Poems (First Archipelago, 2016)”
― Dulce María Loynaz, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems

“Estoy doblada sobre tu recuerdo como la mujer que vi esta tarde lavando en el río.

Horas y horas de rodillas, doblada por la cintura sobre este río negro de tu ausencia.”
― Dulce María Loynaz, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems

“I wouldn’t trade my solitude for a little love. For a lot of love, yes. But a lot of love is itself a kind of solitude.”
― Dulce María Loynaz, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems

“The eyes gaze on the blue stars, but the feet, humbly grounded, hold up the pedestal for the eyes gazing on blue stars.”
― Dulce María Loynaz, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems

“Dichoso tú, que no tienes el amor disperso …, que no tienes que correr detrás del corazón vuelto simiente de todos los surcos, corza de todos los valles, ala de todos los vientos.

Dichoso tú, que puedes encerrar tu amor en sólo un nombre, y decir el color de sus ojos, y medir la altura de su frente, y dormir a sus pies como un fiel perro.”
― Dulce María Loynaz, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems