Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Manuel Vilas

Quote by Manuel Vilas

“The most unsettling aspect is my tendency to relate to misfortune--not to alleviate it, but to make it mine, to place it in my heart.”

Quote by Manuel Vilas

Book:Ordesa

Work

Ordesa

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Manuel Vilas

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Manuel Vilas. more

You May Also Like

“Does poetry have its issues? One hundred percent. Does poetry have its limitations? One hundred percent. It’s not going to cure disease or feed the hungry, but it might help us to understand someone else's experience just a little bit better. Or maybe it’ll make us mad and then we’ll have to interrogate why we’re mad, or implicated, or why we feel left out. Like many of the arts, poetry can be the way of recognizing our own beauty and our own flaws.”