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Pej Tao citáty a výroky
Pej Tao: Citáty anglicky
“a perpetual stranger
am I to the world
I don't understand its language
my silence it can't comprehend”
"A perpetual stranger...", p. 110
Variant translation:
In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence
The August Sleepwalker (1990)
“I am no hero
In an age without heroes
I just want to be a man”
"Declaration", p. 62
The August Sleepwalker (1990)
"The Answer" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50088/the-answer-56d22cd8d69d0, p. 33
The August Sleepwalker (1990)
“we are not guiltless
long ago we became accomplices
of the history in the mirror”
"Accomplices", p. 89
The August Sleepwalker (1990)
“Freedom is nothing but the distance
between the hunter and the hunted”
"Accomplices", p. 89
The August Sleepwalker (1990)
"Declaration", p. 62
The August Sleepwalker (1990)