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“I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.”

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Aharon Appelfeld is an Israeli novelist known for his profound reflections on the Holocaust and his unique literary style. His works often depict historical events from the perspective of Jews, particularly the life during World War II. more

“A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.”

Ifs Feels Made Imagine Conditions Busy Permit Denied Too Busy

Author:Mark Strand

“The dead have need of fairy tales too.”

Needs Tales Fairy Fairy Tale

Book:The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998

Source: The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998

“Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or a bed rear on its hind legs. And tables, even when they are tired, will not dare to bend their knees. I suspect that objects do this from pedagogical considerations, to reprove us constantly for our instability.”

Feet Objects Bed Tables Tired Dare Legs Knees Consideration Chairs Suspects Instability Inanimate Objects

Book:The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998

Source: The Collected Poems 1956 - 1998

“I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.”

Humans States Turns Winning Responsibility Lessons Conscience Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Zbigniew Herbert

“And if the City falls and one survives he shall carry the City within on the roads of exile he shall be the City”

Ifs Fall Cities Exile

Author:Zbigniew Herbert

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