“Make no mistake, your relationships are the heaviest components in your life. All those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises. The slower we move the faster we die. Make no mistake, moving is living. Some animals were meant to carry each other. To live symbiotically over a lifetime. Star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not swans. We are sharks.” MovingDiesStarsAnimalSecretMistakeLoversArgumentLifetimeCompromiseFasterOur RelationshipNegotiationComponentsSharksSwansStar Crossed Lovers Author:Ryan Bingham
“Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. To whom is it lacking? To the lover. If we follow the trajectory of eros we consistently find it tracing out this same route: it moves out from the lover toward the beloved, then ricochets back to the lover himself and the hole in him, unnoticed before. Who is the subject of most love poems? Not the beloved. It is that hole.” IfsLovePainMovingPleasureSubjectsObjectsLoversHolesBelovedConsistentlyLackingRoutesLove PoemsRegisterUnnoticedTrajectoryPain And PleasureErosTracingDesirabilityRicochet Book:Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay Source: Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
“What's happening is the language. Not only in the usual sense of being interesting (which it is), but in the new sense that words are events, as real and important in themselves as wars and lovers... It is to the word, then, that the mind moves, and the word responds by taking on a physicality, even a sensuality, we have all been trained to ignore. Words have weight, and the distance between two can be a chasm filled with forces of association... What Clark is doing is genuinely new.” MindTwoImportantWarRealMovingLanguageForceInterestingEventsLoversHappeningsWeightFilledDistanceSensualityUsualAssociationPhysicalityChasms Author:Ron Silliman
“Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.” LoveFirstsEndsMovingLoversCirclesBeloved Book:Philosophical Texts Source: Philosophical Texts