Ask Baba Yaga Quotes

“Dear Baba Yaga,

I feel like I'm forever missing something inside myself. With people, without people, wonderful job, jobless. I always feel like there's a gaping hole. What is missing?

BABA YAGA:

By rooting in the hole you make the hole wider; you scrape , its walls you open fresh soil--the earth of it smells blacker & blacker, you see the hole & the hole only, you live within it always; if you find yrself eating fruits in the good forest you remember the hole & go to look if it is still there dropping yr fruit-meat all the whiles. & if you think think think only of the hole it will become the great work & mystery of yr life, & you will die in the hole as you lived in it.”
― Taisia Kitaiskaia, Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles

“The life of every being has , some vast emptiness in it. Unspeakable, grievous. ;There is a field in the middle of my wood where no one goes. It is the heart of my loneliness. I go there to dance & be quiet. & I love the intensity of its silence. If I were human I would wish to take another there. You must know every contour of yr emptiness before you can know whom you wish to invite in.”
― Taisia Kitaiskaia, Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles

“happiness is a
thing that passes through you, not a thing you
meet & hold in yr deathly grip for ever”
― Taisia Kitaiskaia, Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles

“BABA YAGA:
In every being ; now, you see their eyes as glinting black
seeds, their limbs as sleeves of the dark roots & branches
their bodies hold. Every creature now is a cloak over an evil
plant, growing, wishing you ill or buckling from rot. Every
where you look you see ; the clawing wasteland of yr
nearest time. & Time, coming, will ungnarl the shapes you
see.”
― Taisia Kitaiskaia, Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles

“The wellness remembers the deep living of the wound, & so is happier than any easy health.”
― Taisia Kitaiskaia, Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles

“Yr anger is a ) rightful river & yr fear-owl a worthy adversary following above. But every being is , cursed : wearing some deathly wreath. That you feel it ; round yr neck so young is a sorry tale but one in which you join the line of Seers—you see the truth stripped bare & so the wind stings the bareness with an extra fury & so you are roped strong with that fury & that sting, the curse is there for you, bared, to bow down to & harness & wear.”
― Taisia Kitaiskaia, Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles