“I only speak, with the voice of the swan, / To the inconstant moon.”
— Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems: “You Were Promised to Me…”
“I only speak, with the voice of the swan, / To the inconstant moon.”
— Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems: “You Were Promised to Me…”
“On your lips I read the monologue of goddesses,”
— Yvan Goll, tr. by Donald Wellman, from “Snow Music,” written c. 1938
“I was born with a knife in one hand and a wound in the other.”
— Gregory Orr, from “Like Any Other Man,” in The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems
*hears a foreign language i don’t speak*
me: *sobbing* it’s beautiful i must learn it
