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Quotes from Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights — Marjorie Agosín

born 1955 United States

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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)

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)

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)

I want literature to be a means for creating humility. (Introduction)

Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)

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)

translators are the messengers of the spirit. You bring a message to someone who does not understand the original.

Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)

As a child I would always be asked whether I was Jewish or Chilean and, thus, my identity became always conflicted, always a matter of either/or and seldom both. ("Jewish Women in Latin America")

Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)

I think that memory is a form of translation. What motivates the artistic expression of poets and fiction writers, essayists and painters is memory. But memory is also very complicated because it consists of what one chooses to remember.

Invisible Dreamer: Memory, Judaism & Human Rights (2002)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marjorie Agosín (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.