epic word crush.

"You will never meet the Lestrygonians, Cyclops, and the fierce Poseidon, if you do not carry them in your soul, if your soul does not raise them up before you."

--excerpts from Ithaca by C.P. Cavafy



also,

"I LIKE a look of agony, because I know it's true;
Men do not shame convulsion, nor stimulate a throe."

--Emily Dickinson