it has been said that words--language--cannot capture the purity of human emotion, that only images, sounds, smells, movement, expressionism can.

this is a lie.

because when I read this yesterday...cheaply reprinted in the Guardian...

I cried.




"Late Fragment" by Ramond Carver

And did you get what you wanted from this life
even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved,
to feel myself
beloved on the earth.