“I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a
single word: Home.”
― Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
single word: Home.”
― Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.”
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“We have on this earth what makes life worth living: April’s hesitation, the aroma of bread at dawn, a woman’s point of view about men, the works of Aeschylus, the beginning of love, grass on a stone, mothers living on a flute’s sigh and the invaders’ fear of memories.”
― Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
― Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
“Our shared vocabulary—our own language—will die with us. We are the treasure itself: fathoms deep, in the world we have made and made again.”
― Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
― Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
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