Sublime

hambre del alma, a starvation of the soul,

But in truth, for the sake of a woman’s wild soul, it is better to cry.

We all have favorite methods of talking ourselves out of taking the time to go home; yet when we retrieve our instinctive and wildish cycles, we are under a psychic obligation to arrange our lives so that we can live them more and more in accordance.

it assists greatly if we understand stories as though we are inside them, rather than as though they are outside of us.

Shifting power to the doll, i.e., intuition.

The good match is the man who keeps returning to try to understand, who does not let himself be deterred by the sideshows on the road.

They only need to be set in the right direction, which is always down, down into one’s own work, down into one’s own inner life, down through that tunnel to the lair.

The Jungian writer Polly Young-Eisendrath

know several writers who have this glyph taped above their writing desks. I know one who carries it folded up inside her shoe. It is from a poem by Charles Simic and it is the ultimate instruction to us all: “He who cannot howl, will not find his pack.”23