the gorgon's cry

The Color of Pomegranates (1969)

Aries: “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

Taurus: “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

Gemini: “Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. That is a kind of death.”

Cancer: “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”

Leo: “I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I cannot transform into something marvelous, I let go.”

Virgo: “We don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.”

Libra: “You cannot save people. You can only love them.”

Scorpio: “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”

Sagittarius: “Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another.”

Capricorn: “I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ.”

Aquarius: “There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our own life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”

“Tell the king; the fair wrought house has fallen No shelter has Apollo, nor sacred laurel leaves The fountains are now silent; the voice is stilled. It is finished.”