G had recommended the Nobel acceptance lecture by Harold Pinter. I got around to reading it after a while… And boy was it a read…there are some things you read once in a while that sends your blood coursing down your views and leaves you throbbing awake, with all all your senses pounding away…This article did the same for me, having read words of such power after a long time. The words turn from being dreamy and philosophical at...

Stay by my side as my light grows dim /     as my blood slows down and my nerves shatter with stabbing pain /     as my heart grows weak /     and the wheels of my being turn slowly / Stay by my side as my fragile body is racked by pain /     which verges on truth /     and manic time continues scattering dust /     and furious life bursts out in...

You stand in the doorwayYour face invisible in the bright opaqueness of the daylightyour outline silhouetted, simmering as made of vapour you do not speak, nor ifor you see,the very best and the very worst of our lives are inexpressiblecant be spoken of without losing that intangible terrible beauty You always saidThe brightest light leaves the blackest shadowBut then don’t you understandThe light is the light only because you are...

I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom and carrieshidden within itself the light of those flowers,and thanks to your love, darkly in my bodylives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth. I love you without knowing how, or when,...