“I love old things. Modern things are so cold. I need things that have lived.”
— Barbara Hulanicki of Biba
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“Forgive me, if I stop answering you. No words are left. Only the trees sound inside me.”
— Alexandra Petrova (born 1964), translated from the Russian by Stephanie Sandler
“Прости, если больше тебе не отвечу,
cлов не осталось. Только деревья во мне шумят.”
“I come without languages out of my loneliness, and without languages I go towards yours.”
— Luis García Montero (born 1958), from “Love, you call me”, translated from the Spanish by Alice McAdams
– How do you defend yourself against loneliness ?
– I become loneliness itself.
– Lawrence Durrell, from “The Alexandria Quartet”
“The more my wings burn, the more I near the truth and arise from the ashes.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, from “Mural”, translated from the Arabic by Munir Akash and Carolyn Forché
“I am the air you don’t see”
—
Octavio Paz, from “Trowbridge Street”
in “The Poems Of Octavio Paz″, translated by Eliot Weinberger
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