Lily Borovets

“No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.”
― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections

“We must recognize the fact that philosophy at the present time is entirely at an impasse concerning the problem of the origin of values. This theoretical failure is reflected in the practical antinomy between submission and rebellion that infects the daily concerns of education, politics, and ethics. If no decision can be made at this level, we must retrace our steps, extricate ourselves from the impasse, and try to gain access, by means of a nonethical approach, to the problem of autonomy and obedience.”
― Paul Ricoeur, The Conflict of Interpretations

“History is a silent record of people who could not leave, it is a record of those who did not have a choice, you cannot leave when you have nowhere to go and have not the means to go there, you cannot leave when your children cannot get a passport, cannot go when your feet are rooted in the earth and to leave means tearing off your feet.”
― Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

“I go where I love and where I am loved,
into the snow;
I go to the things I love
with no thought of duty or pity;

I go where I belong, inexorably,
as the rain that has lain long

from “The Flowering of the Rod [2]”
― H.D., Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod