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Each wave is the water one is man green and leaves go together wings and the air the rivers are this River and the ark

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 Each wave is the water one is man green and leaves go together wings and the air the rivers are this River and the ark

Apr 24,2021

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#quotes #words #poetry #lit #m #poetry in translation #moments #Homero Aridjis #Blue Spaces #Los Espacios Azules #bilingual editions

In us, the world gives itself time to finish. And still, on the page it would like to be reborn. It keeps a semblance of future:...

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 In us, the world gives itself time to finish. And still, on the page it would like to be reborn. It keeps a semblance of future:...

Apr 03,2021

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#quotes #words #poetry #lit #m #poetry in translation #french lit #jean-michel maulpoix #Nothing remains but an empty gesture resembling prayer #A Matter of Blue: Poems #the most human colour #myth of creation

She wants to speak, but I feel what she is. She finds death love even if everything without love, is an offence to her.

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 She wants to speak, but I feel what she is. She finds death love even if everything without love, is an offence to her.

Mar 24,2021

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And this business of writing. I see by mirrors, in darkness. I sense a place known to no one but me. I sing of distances,

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 And this business of writing. I see by mirrors, in darkness. I sense a place known to no one but me. I sing of distances,

Mar 24,2021

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Oh the hellish colour of my passions. Nevertheless, I remained a prisoner of the old tenderness.

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 Oh the hellish colour of my passions. Nevertheless, I remained a prisoner of the old tenderness.

Mar 22,2021

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Night blindly mine. Dream of the body transparent like a glass tree. The horror of searching for your eyes in the space full

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 Night blindly mine. Dream of the body transparent like a glass tree. The horror of searching for your eyes in the space full

Mar 19,2021

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From my desolate breathing I say: let there be language where there should be silence.

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 From my desolate breathing I say: let there be language where there should be silence.

Mar 18,2021

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Somebody is not enunciated. Somebody cannot attend herself. And you refused to acknowledge me when I told you what in me

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 Somebody is not enunciated. Somebody cannot attend herself. And you refused to acknowledge me when I told you what in me

Mar 18,2021

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Zone of perpetual vision. I crossed in a mysterious moan.

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 Zone of perpetual vision. I crossed in a mysterious moan.

Mar 08,2021

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Things yellowed before my eyes just back from an autumn dream.

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 Things yellowed before my eyes just back from an autumn dream.

Mar 05,2021

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Love draws on my eyes the desired body like a knife thrower tattooing on the wall with fear and skill the still nakedness

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 Love draws on my eyes the desired body like a knife thrower tattooing on the wall with fear and skill the still nakedness

Feb 19,2021

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who lost me in the ghostly silence of words

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 who lost me in the ghostly silence of words

Feb 17,2021

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A café full of empty chairs, lit up to the point of exasperation, the night in the shape of absence, the sky as if made

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 A café full of empty chairs, lit up to the point of exasperation, the night in the shape of absence, the sky as if made

Feb 14,2021

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This spectral texture of darkness, this melody in the bones, this breath from diverse silences, this going down beneath ground,...

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 This spectral texture of darkness, this melody in the bones, this breath from diverse silences, this going down beneath ground,...

Jan 30,2021

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If only I could always live in ecstasy, making the body of the poem with my body, rescuing every phrase with my days and weeks,...

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 If only I could always live in ecstasy, making the body of the poem with my body, rescuing every phrase with my days and weeks,...

Jan 30,2021

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I write against fear. Against the clawed wind dwelling on my breath.

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 I write against fear. Against the clawed wind dwelling on my breath.

Jan 30,2021

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I am a new rose. My redness, wild hallucinations–

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 I am a new rose. My redness, wild hallucinations–

Jan 22,2021

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#quotes #words #poetry #lit #m #poetry in translation #the mystic #Dunya Mikhail #Tough Rose #The War Works Hard #on red #colour spectrum #iraqi lit

in your perfect fingers I am the light

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 in your perfect fingers I am the light

Jan 17,2021

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#quotes #poetry #poetry in translation #Halina Poświatowska

love isn’t inside bodies: bodies only tell the love.

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 love isn’t inside bodies: bodies only tell the love.

Jan 17,2021

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#quotes #poetry #poetry in translation #Yehuda Amichai #Hebrew poetry

I am your voice, the fever of your breathing, I am the reflection of your face.

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 I am your voice, the fever of your breathing, I am the reflection of your face.

Jan 17,2021

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#quotes #poetry #poetry in translation #anna akhmatova #Russian poetry #Russian poet

… the soul was silent at the edge of sound

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 … the soul was silent at the edge of sound

Jan 16,2021

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#quotes #poetry #poetry in translation #Boris Poplavsky #Russian poetry #Russian poet

Only you and I, Only you and I, my love, Listen to me.

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 Only you and I, Only you and I, my love, Listen to me.

Jan 13,2021

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#quotes #poetry #poetry in translation #pablo neruda

I speak with eyes closed. Someone has planted a forest of magnetic needles in my eyelids, someone guides the thread

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 I speak with eyes closed. Someone has planted a forest of magnetic needles in my eyelids, someone guides the thread

Dec 10,2020

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#quotes #poetry #poetry in translation #Octavio Paz #San Ildefonso nocturne #Mexican poet #Octavio Paz. Selected Poems

I write with eyes shut, I write with eyes open: let the wall collapse, let the wall turn river.

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 I write with eyes shut, I write with eyes open: let the wall collapse, let the wall turn river.

Dec 02,2020

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