#david unger

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I am the dark shadow coiled among tree roots like a serpent.

— VICENTE ALEIXANDRE ⚜️ A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vicente Aleixandre [Ed. Lewis Hyde], transl. by Lewis Hyde & David Unger, (2007)

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Deeper, much deeper, the fire purifies. It is the wilderness fire to which no one descends. An exile forbidden to souls, forbidden to shadows. Bowels that burn with an unholy solitude.

— VICENTE ALEIXANDRE ⚜️ A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems of Vicente Aleixandre [Ed. Lewis Hyde], transl. by Lewis Hyde & David Unger, (2007)

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The poem is a solitary rite related in what’s essential, to death.

— Enrique Lihn, The Dark Room and Other Poems, transl by Jonathan Cohen, John Felstiner & David Unger, (1978)

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I was watching her inexorable profile her jaguar features […] that aerodynamic coldness she radiated.

— Enrique Lihn, The Dark Room and Other Poems, transl by Jonathan Cohen, John Felstiner & David Unger, (1978)

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Because words that fit in the abyss give off a bit of dark intelligence and by that light many a monster’s life is spared.

— Enrique Lihn, The Dark Room and Other Poems, transl by Jonathan Cohen, John Felstiner & David Unger, (1978)

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But I wrote, I had that rare assurance, the illusion you’ve got the world in your hands – what a perfect illusion! Like a baroque Christ with all its needless cruelty.

— Enrique Lihn, The Dark Room and Other Poems, transl by Jonathan Cohen, John Felstiner & David Unger, (1978)

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And love was the kiss on the forehead from another world.

— Enrique Lihn, The Dark Room and Other Poems, transl by Jonathan Cohen, John Felstiner & David Unger, (1978)

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You either eat a heart or throw it away.

— Enrique Lihn, The Dark Room and Other Poems, transl by Jonathan Cohen, John Felstiner & David Unger, (1978)