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“In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats”
Quelle: The Savage Detectives
"Meeting with Enrique Lihn" (The New Yorker,December 22, 2008)
Kontext: Literature was a vast minefield occupied by enemies, except for a few classic authors (just a few), and every day I had to walk through that minefield, where any false move could be fatal, with only the poems of Archilochus to guide me. It’s like that for all young writers. There comes a time when you have no support, not even from friends, forget about mentors, and there’s no one to give you a hand; publication, prizes, and grants are reserved for the others, the ones who said “Yes, sir,” over and over, or those who praised the literary mandarins, a never-ending horde distinguished only by their aptitude for discipline and punishment — nothing escapes them and they forgive nothing.
Entre Paréntesis (2004) edited by Ignacio Echevarría, p. 223
“The Eye never said good-bye to anyone. I never said good-bye to anyone either.”
Mauricio ('The Eye') Silva
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)
Kontext: One day I heard that The Eye had left Mexico. I wasn't surprised that he hadn't said good-bye. The Eye never said good-bye to anyone. I never said good-bye to anyone either.
"Meeting with Enrique Lihn" (The New Yorker,December 22, 2008)
Kontext: Literature was a vast minefield occupied by enemies, except for a few classic authors (just a few), and every day I had to walk through that minefield, where any false move could be fatal, with only the poems of Archilochus to guide me. It’s like that for all young writers. There comes a time when you have no support, not even from friends, forget about mentors, and there’s no one to give you a hand; publication, prizes, and grants are reserved for the others, the ones who said “Yes, sir,” over and over, or those who praised the literary mandarins, a never-ending horde distinguished only by their aptitude for discipline and punishment — nothing escapes them and they forgive nothing.
“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
Quelle: The Insufferable Gaucho
“we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.”
Quelle: The Savage Detectives
“Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.”
Quelle: The Savage Detectives
“I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.”
Quelle: The Savage Detectives
“Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.”
Quelle: The Savage Detectives
