Горјан Костовски

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Европа ма бара! И се прди на Европа за вас. Се воздивнувате за Германија, а татко ви кој изгубил нозе за да ја направи куќата е помија!”
― Горан Стефановски, Диво месо

“Кога ја љубев Дениција,
како да калемев светлина на мракот,
како да топев снегови фатени во движење,
како да станував единствен сведок
за бакнежот меѓу металот и громот.”
― Петре М. Андреевски

“The earth turned to bring us closer,
it spun on itself and within us,
and finally joined us together in this dream
as written in the Symposium.
Nights passed by, snowfalls and solstices;
time passed in minutes and millennia.
An ox cart that was on its way to Nineveh
arrived in Nebraska.
A rooster was singing some distance from the world,
in one of the thousand pre-lives of our fathers.
The earth was spinning with its music carrying us on board;
it didn't stop turning a single moment
as if so much love, so much that's miraculous
was only an adagio written long ago
in the Symposium's score.”
― Eugenio Montejo, The Trees: Selected Poems 1967-2004