March 2012
107 posts
“Yesterday I was mastering words
And kissing lips lightly—
Their loving weakness
Now remains on my own
Hardworking lips,
Exacting, as if forever,
My terrible punishment.” —Eugene Dubnov, from “Lips,” trans. Anne Stevenson (via proustitute)
And kissing lips lightly—
Their loving weakness
Now remains on my own
Hardworking lips,
Exacting, as if forever,
My terrible punishment.” —Eugene Dubnov, from “Lips,” trans. Anne Stevenson (via proustitute)
“Even when evil has been defeated and the good has triumphed—when foreign workers are not cheated, and women not beaten, and the poor are not oppressed—then, too, when justice has been done, man will still be in need of mercy.”
—Gail Harevan, The Confessions of Noa Weber, trans. from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu (2009)
