Lauren Evans

“I remember the foreigners from the other side of the world, sailing up the Tiber into a country they knew nothing of: their envoy came to my father's house, explained that he was a Trojan, and made polite speeches in fluent Latin. Now how can that be? Do we all know all the languages? That can be true only of the dead, whose land lies under all the other lands. How is it that you understand me, who lived twenty-five or thirty years ago? Do you know Latin?

But then I think no, it has nothing to do with being dead, it;s not death that allows us to understand one another, but poetry.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia