August 2012
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“Poetry as a cemetery. A cemetery of faces, hands, gestures. A cemetery of...”
– Anna Kamienska, Industrious Amazement: A Notebook (translated by Clare Cavanagh)
July 2012
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“Four talked about the pine tree. One defined it by genus, species, and variety....”
– Dan Pagis, “Conversation” (translated by Stephen Mitchell)
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“Now and then, I remember you in times
Unbelievable. And in places not made for...”
– Yehuda Amichai, from “Little Ruth” (translated by Benjamin Harshav and Barbara Harshav)
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“And as we stray further from love
we multiply the words,
words and sentences...”
– Yehuda Amichai, from “Quick and Bitter” (translated by Assia Gutmann)
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“Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us out to...”
– Leslie Marmon Silko, The Turquoise Ledge
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“Where there’s gloom—there’s a radiance, all the world is...”
– Elena Shvarts, from “Elegies on the Cardinal Points” (translated by Michael Molnar)
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Watchteresabanks:
Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story
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“There’s nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.”
– Joseph Brodsky, from “Roman Elegies”
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“ My birthday began with the water-
Birds and the birds of the winged trees...”
– Dylan Thomas, from “Poem in October”
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“I’m going to write. That’s what I see beyond the present moment, in...”
– Marguerite Duras, The Lover (translated by Barbara Bray)
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“I asked him to do it again and again. Do it to me. And he did, did it in the...”
– Marguerite Duras, The Lover (translated by Barbara Bray)
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“Dread of night. Dread of not-night.”
– Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks (translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins)
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“scent of earth,
my lost childhood.”
– Antonia Pozzi, from “Scent of Green” (translated by Nicholas Benson)
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“I hear the wind blow,
And I feel that it was worth being born just to hear the...”
– Fernando Pessoa, from “Uncollected Poems” (translated by Richard Zenith)
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“I thought of you
after sunset
in a darkened street
when a pane fell to the...”
– Antonia Pozzi, from “Reflections” (translated by Nicholas Benson)
“I go,
dreaming of those buried
in orchards and vineyards,
and I remember...”
– Adonis, from “Elegy for the Time at Hand” (translated by Samuel Hazo)
“the dead are gentle to us
we carry them on our shoulders
sleep under the same...”
– Zbigniew Herbert, from “Our Fear” (translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott)
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“write, write or die.”
– H.D., from “Red Rose and a Beggar”
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“Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means...”
– Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks (translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins)
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“Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
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“Four or five stories, soft as clouds, changing shape as I watch them. The form...”
– Mavis Gallant, from a diary entry written in May 1959 (via The New Yorker)
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“I remember my first birth in water. All round me a sulphurous transparency and...”
– Anaïs Nin, House of Incest
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