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“To write in Bikol is to insist that our language, our memory, and our identity matter.”

— Kristian Sendon Cordero

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“Poetry is a way of returning to the silence of the soul, but also a way of resisting oblivion.”

“The poet is both pilgrim and witness, carrying fragments of the sacred and the profane.”

“Translation is not betrayal; it is a bridge that allows us to inhabit another’s world while keeping our own.”

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Women and elephants never forget an injury.

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Man should possess an infinite appetite for life. It should be self-evident to him, all the time, that life is superb, glorious, endlessly rich, infinitely desirable.

Colin Wilson The Philosopher's Stone (1969)

To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting.

William James The Principles of Psychology (1890)

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