Martín Adán > Quotes

“If you let it be known that you are a
poet, you will be sent to the police
station.”
― Martín Adán, The Cardboard House

“If you let it be known that you are a
poet, you will be sent to the police
station.”
― Martín Adán, The Cardboard House

“And my love follows you though the skyless night of the street, like the memory of a dog you once had that died.”
― Martín Adán, The Cardboard House

“In the afternoons, in the long pre-nights to Lima’s winter, Herr Oswald Teller, from his mildewy room, flooded the house with music and homesickness and geniality. Liquefied Mozart poured down the staircase and formed puddles in the hollows like a torrent of rain that had soaked through the roof.”
― Martín Adán, The Cardboard House