Andrea Levan

“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka

“His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“‎I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, jar of octopus, cuckoo's cry, 5-7-5, but now I want a russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping, another 75 of what you think staring at your window.”
― Dean Young

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
― Franz Kafka