Švelnumas pragare Quotes

“I have been skating on the dark side of the moon.
The stars glance down at me like cold, gleaming panther eyes.
Even though there is no oxygen I can still breathe.”
― Vytautas Pliura, Tenderness in Hell: Collected Poems by Vytautas Pliura

“I have been skating on the dark side of the moon..
My blades are sharp. My shoelaces are tight.
It is deathly quiet on the dark side of the moon.”
― Vytautas Pliura, Tenderness in Hell: Collected Poems by Vytautas Pliura

“You begin to kiss me as though
You are getting oxygen out of each kiss.”
― Vytautas Pliura, Tenderness in Hell: Collected Poems by Vytautas Pliura

“And for the first time I looked at myself straight in the mirror
And I broke down and cried for twenty minutes
I could not stop
It was as if I had seen myself for the first time.”
― Vytautas Pliura, Tenderness in Hell: Collected Poems by Vytautas Pliura

“I want to love someone
Maybe this time I would let them love me back.”
― Vytautas Pliura, Tenderness in Hell: Collected Poems by Vytautas Pliura

“I was murdered, snuffed out, by this society full
of lies and deception
Murdered by a deadly conspiracy of feelings.”
― Vytautas Pliura, Tenderness in Hell: Collected Poems by Vytautas Pliura

“„Now they stand along Santa Monica Blvd. with a haunted look
on their faces like ghost unsure for their next move”
― Vytautas Pliura, Tenderness in Hell: Collected Poems by Vytautas Pliura

“„It is ok for two men to kill each other in war, but it is not ok
for those two same men to make love”
― Vytautas Pliura, Tenderness in Hell: Collected Poems by Vytautas Pliura

“Только после его ухода я понял, что он изрезал себя на манер полосатой зебры, отказавшейся есть у него из рук. Я понял: он просто ходил шрамами наружу, я носил их с изнанки.”
― Vytautas Pliura, Švelnumas pragare