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“All'uscita del paese si dividevano tre strade: una andava verso il mare, la seconda verso la città e la terza non andava in nessun posto.
Martino lo sapeva perché l'aveva chiesto un po' a tutti e da tutti aveva avuto la stessa risposta:
- Quella strada lì? Non va in nessun posto! E' inutile camminarci.
- E fin dove arriva?
- Non arriva da nessuna parte
- Ma allora perché l'hanno fatta?
- Ma non l'ha fatta nessuno, è sempre stata lì!
- Ma nessuno è mai andato a vedere?
- Oh sei una bella testa dura! Se ti diciamo che non c'è niente da vedere...
- Non potete saperlo se non ci siete stati mai.”
― Cuentos por teléfono
Martino lo sapeva perché l'aveva chiesto un po' a tutti e da tutti aveva avuto la stessa risposta:
- Quella strada lì? Non va in nessun posto! E' inutile camminarci.
- E fin dove arriva?
- Non arriva da nessuna parte
- Ma allora perché l'hanno fatta?
- Ma non l'ha fatta nessuno, è sempre stata lì!
- Ma nessuno è mai andato a vedere?
- Oh sei una bella testa dura! Se ti diciamo che non c'è niente da vedere...
- Non potete saperlo se non ci siete stati mai.”
― Cuentos por teléfono
“Everyone forgets Icarus also flew.”
― Refusing Heaven: Poems
― Refusing Heaven: Poems
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
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“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
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“Failing and Flying"
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
It's the same when love comes to an end,
or the marriage fails and people say
they knew it was a mistake, that everybody
said it would never work. That she was
old enough to know better. But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
Like being there by that summer ocean
on the other side of the island while
love was fading out of her, the stars
burning so extravagantly those nights that
anyone could tell you they would never last.
Every morning she was asleep in my bed
like a visitation, the gentleness in her
like antelope standing in the dawn mist.
Each afternoon I watched her coming back
through the hot stony field after swimming,
the sea light behind her and the huge sky
on the other side of that. Listened to her
while we ate lunch. How can they say
the marriage failed? Like the people who
came back from Provence (when it was Provence)
and said it was pretty but the food was greasy.
I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his triumph.”
― Refusing Heaven: Poems
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew.
It's the same when love comes to an end,
or the marriage fails and people say
they knew it was a mistake, that everybody
said it would never work. That she was
old enough to know better. But anything
worth doing is worth doing badly.
Like being there by that summer ocean
on the other side of the island while
love was fading out of her, the stars
burning so extravagantly those nights that
anyone could tell you they would never last.
Every morning she was asleep in my bed
like a visitation, the gentleness in her
like antelope standing in the dawn mist.
Each afternoon I watched her coming back
through the hot stony field after swimming,
the sea light behind her and the huge sky
on the other side of that. Listened to her
while we ate lunch. How can they say
the marriage failed? Like the people who
came back from Provence (when it was Provence)
and said it was pretty but the food was greasy.
I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his triumph.”
― Refusing Heaven: Poems
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