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“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.... Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net.”
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“Confía en el tiempo, que suele dar dulces salidas a muchas amargas dificultades...”
― El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha
― El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."
[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”
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[Letters of Note; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”
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“This must be the taste of Language—
the tongue mapped by many colors,
parsed by the vowels of memory, the roof
of the mouth the dome of a world
circumscribed by consonants, whose edges
suggest the sour-sweetness of oranges,
the bittermelon’s green rind, the river-
scent of mangoes all the way to the grove.”
― Skin of Water: Selected Poems
the tongue mapped by many colors,
parsed by the vowels of memory, the roof
of the mouth the dome of a world
circumscribed by consonants, whose edges
suggest the sour-sweetness of oranges,
the bittermelon’s green rind, the river-
scent of mangoes all the way to the grove.”
― Skin of Water: Selected Poems
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