sab kuch aacha hai

What happens between us
has happened for centuries
we know it from literature

still it happens

there are books that describe all this
and yet they are useless

You walk into the woods behind a house
there in that country
you find a temple
built eighteen hundred years ago
you enter without knowing
what it is you enter

so it is with us

no one knows what may happen
though the books tell everything

burn the texts said Artaud

— Adrienne Rich

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‘We are too unobservant or too self-centred to fathom one another. Anyone who has seen masks at a ball, dancing amicably together, and holding hands without recognizing one another, only to part a moment later, and neither to meet again nor miss one another, can form a conception of the world at large.’

— Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues, ‘Reflections and Maxims’

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