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The search for identity and belonging is also a motif for the human condition of the twentieth century-a century defined by displacements and migrations.
Forward to Miriam's Daughters: Jewish Latin American Women Poets (2000)
To write is also to bear witness, to resist the dehumanization of the world, and to tell and reveal.
Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)
Since the earliest history, poetry and the spoken word have been the pulse of human civilization.
Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)
Books unite people and books in translation are the thresholds of other cultures, invitations to travel and to know others.
Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)
Home is understanding and being understood.
Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)
Writing and culture are very much related to the possibilities of the human imagination. The capacity of language allows the imagination to flow and to transform and mend the world.
Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)
To write meant to always be awake, willing to take risks, full of magic and happiness, eager to create and undo, because life was that way, like words.
The translation of art, the translation of poetry, however, is the translation of the spirit. A good translator translates what is not said.
Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)
Translations are like crossings of borders, crossings of landscapes, crossings of voices.
Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)
I dream the dream of stories not yet told and my lips begin to tell them out loud.
Poetry, which is always with me and brings me to privileged horizons and uncertain but always true pathways
My activism in human rights was born from various conditions that came together: I was Jewish, female, and an exile.
introduction, a map of hope: women's writing on human rights (1999)
Only while in nature's perfection—where there is no difference between the outside world and myself and, at the same time, my own indifference—have I truly felt that I belonged.
Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)
The blue cloud finally opens-just when the bell rings to let the Juana Ross School out for the weekend. (first sentence)
I Lived on Butterfly Hill (2014)
I want literature to be a means for creating humility. (Introduction)
Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)
Her face is beaming, lit from within by a memory. (p39)
I Lived on Butterfly Hill (2014)
“I have been so busy asking for faith that I forgot to ask for patience. (p330)
I Lived on Butterfly Hill (2014)
To be Jewish in Chile was to be above all a foreigner
The possibilities of language reside in the possibilities of faith; they are a form of redeeming and correcting world history and paying tribute to life in all its wonder. These poems were written by a spirit that wishes to be part of a history that does not cover but on the contrary reveals and is clear in the blinding light of every silence.
as poets, as writers, as artists we can copy others, but it is very dangerous to copy one's self.
Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)