Adam Zagajewski – Nowhere

“It was a faceless Monday, craven,
vague, a day without inspiration, nowhere, even grief didn’t take a radical shape”

Gabriela Mistral – The Teller of Tales

“And the people walking on the road leave me their stories, I pick them up where they fell in cocoons of silken thread.”

Anne Waldman – How to Write

“Uptown in a large crowd I want to sit down and cry because everything is simple and complicated all at once”

Martín Espada – The Five Horses of Doctor Ramón Emeterio Betances

“The legend calls him the doctor who exhausted five horses, sleepless as he chased invisible armies into the night.”

Mark Strand – After Our Planet

“I would like to step out and be on the other side, and be part of all that surrounds me.”

Adonis – From “Elegy for the Times”

“So we go and fear scythes us down, crying out on muddy slopes.”

Bettina Judd – on empathy

“pondering your mortality through a bird. a dead bird. never-mind. you don’t find it a problem not running into windows.”