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“Yo tenía catorce años; había pasado mi niñez en una casa ajena, vigilado siempre por crueles personas. El señor de la casa, el padre, tenía ojos de párpados enrojecidos y cejas espesas; le placía hacer sufrir a los que dependían de él, sirvientes y animales. Después, cuando mi padre me rescató y vagué con él por los pueblos, encontré que en todas partes la gente sufría. La “María Angola” lloraba, quizás, por todos ellos, desde el Cuzco. A nadie había visto más humillado que a ese pongo del Viejo. A cada golpe, la campana entristecía más y se hundía en todas las cosas.”
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“Forget now. Live.”
― All My Sons
― All My Sons
“On the Beach at Night Alone
On the beach at night alone,
As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song,
As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future.
A vast similitude interlocks all,
All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,
All distances of place however wide,
All distances of time, all inanimate forms,
All souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different, or in different worlds,
All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes,
All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,
All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, or any globe,
All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future,
This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann’d,
And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.”
― Poems From "Leaves of Grass"
On the beach at night alone,
As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song,
As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future.
A vast similitude interlocks all,
All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets,
All distances of place however wide,
All distances of time, all inanimate forms,
All souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different, or in different worlds,
All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes,
All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages,
All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, or any globe,
All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future,
This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann’d,
And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.”
― Poems From "Leaves of Grass"
“And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.”
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“She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life.
The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wears. The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.
There were patches of blue sky showing here and there though the clouds that had met and pilled one above the other in the west facing her window.”
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The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wears. The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.
There were patches of blue sky showing here and there though the clouds that had met and pilled one above the other in the west facing her window.”
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