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The translation of art, the translation of poetry, however, is the translation of the spirit. A good translator translates what is not said.

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

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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.

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There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity...but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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