Explore popular quotes and sayings by a poet Eric Gamalinda.
Last updated on November 9, 2024.
Mario Eric Gamalinda is a poet, fiction writer, playwright, and experimental filmmaker. His work has been described as “luminous” and “wonderful and vibrant”. “Gamalinda is a marvelous poet,” wrote D. Nurkse, poet laureate of Brooklyn. “His wistful, fierce, enthralled voice seems to speak the true language, the sotto voce language we can’t hear in our world of binary and mutually destructive opposites.”
He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love.
Love is a fragile, useless thing. It decomposes easily in the tropic heat.
I deny the fact that when I kill time, time is actually killing me
Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared.
I love the excesses of beauty,
there is never enough sunlight
in the world I will live in,
never enough room for love.