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Iryna Starovoyt Quotes

born 1975 Ukraine

Iryna Starovoyt (Ukrainian: Ірина Миколаївна Старовойт; born 30 July 1975) is a Ukrainian poet, essayist, translator and literary critic

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Translated from Ukrainian by Grace Mahoney:
The grass under the scythe is still alive at the roots,
but the stems are left senseless and dead.
The grass bleeds green, and can neither speak nor keep silent.
Losing their language, words grow in power.

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