99 Quotes by Alejandra Pizarnik

No es posible renunciar a lo que no se tiene.

Yo necesito estar sola de alguien. Esto es: estar sola de nadie. Luego, no estoy sola.

Ahora, en esta hora inocente yo y la que fui nos sentamos en el umbral de mi mirada.

Your bones ache on the brink of morning. You split open. I am warning you and I warned you. You disarm. I tell you and I told you. You undress. You divest. You come undone.

Escribir un poema es reparar la herida fundamental, la desgarradura. Porque todos estamos heridos.

Maybe someday we will find refuge in true reality. In the meantime, can I just say how opposed I am to all of this?

Necesito de toda mi inocencia, de toda mi maldad para sobrellevar mi desnudez ardiente.

You’ve built your homeyou’ve fledged your birdsyou’ve beaten the windwith your bonesyou’ve finished alonewhat no one began.

Mouth sewn shut. Eyelids sewn shut. I forgot myself. The wind inside. Everything shut, and the wind inside.