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“Poetry
Poetry,
How did you find your way to me?
My mother does not know Albanian well,
She writes letters like Aragon, without commas and periods,
My father roamed the seas in his youth,
But you have come,
Walking down the pavement of my quiet city of stone,
And knocked timidly at the door of my three-storey house,
At Number 16.
There are many things I have loved and hated in life,
For many a problem I have been an 'open city',
But anyway...
Like a young man returning home late at night,
Exhausted and broken by his nocturnal wanderings,
Here too am I, returning to you,
Worn out after another escapade.
And you,
Not holding my infidelity against me,
Stroke my hair tenderly,
My last stop,
Poetry.”
―
Poetry,
How did you find your way to me?
My mother does not know Albanian well,
She writes letters like Aragon, without commas and periods,
My father roamed the seas in his youth,
But you have come,
Walking down the pavement of my quiet city of stone,
And knocked timidly at the door of my three-storey house,
At Number 16.
There are many things I have loved and hated in life,
For many a problem I have been an 'open city',
But anyway...
Like a young man returning home late at night,
Exhausted and broken by his nocturnal wanderings,
Here too am I, returning to you,
Worn out after another escapade.
And you,
Not holding my infidelity against me,
Stroke my hair tenderly,
My last stop,
Poetry.”
―
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“Io non posseggo nulla al mondo, tranne i tuoi occhi e la mia tristezza.”
― Le mie poesie più belle (Poiesis Vol. 1)
― Le mie poesie più belle (Poiesis Vol. 1)
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“All words
In the dictionaries, letters, and novels
Died.
I want to discover
A way to love you
Without words.”
― Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts
In the dictionaries, letters, and novels
Died.
I want to discover
A way to love you
Without words.”
― Arabian Love Poems: Full Arabic and English Texts
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“Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remember what others forgot, more essential (...) than ever before.”
― The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
― The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
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“As Tony Benn, the British Labour politician, once suggested, we should constantly ask those who govern us five questions: What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?”
― And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
― And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future
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