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Rosario Castellanos
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“Nothing, nothing am I but a small, loving watercourse.”
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“Then silence happened: / the silence that is born of water, foaming, / Suddenly it curdles in a looking glass. / So we grow quiet. We do / the same as lakes to see the sky.”
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“Writing has been a way of explaining to myself the things I do not understand.”
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“Supreme pride is supreme / renunciation. I did not want / to be the dead star / that absorbs borrowed light to revive itself.”
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“A word is the taste / our tongue has of eternity; / that's why I speak.”
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“... I, who have been a net spread in the deep, / return to the surface without a fish.”
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“All we can do is dream, or die, / dream that we do not die / and, at times, for a moment, wake.”
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“I am the daughter of myself. / I am born of my own dream. My dream sustains me.”
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“No one is necessary / not even for you, who by definition / are so needy.”
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“I rock my pain to sleep like a mother her child / or I take refuge in it like a child in his mother / alternately possessor and possessed.”
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“Youth was serious / but not entirely fatal.”
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“I wore old age like a tunic / too heavy for my shoulders.”
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“If not poetry, then what?”
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“We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.”
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“I'm a woman sitting here with all my words intact / like a basket of green fruit.”
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“I remember, we must remember / until justice be done among us.”
Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet, writer, ambassador to Israel
(1925 - 1974)
Full name: Rosario Castellanos Figueroa.