A Poet Reflects

August 12, 2012 with 301 notes
        tags: Gabriel García Márquez. Living to Tell the Tale. Colombian Poetry.
“It is difficult to imagine the degree to which people lived then in the shadow of poetry.  It was a frenzied passion, another way of being, a fireball that went everywhere on its own.  We would open the paper, even the business section or the legal page, or we would read the coffee grounds at the bottom of the cup, and there was poetry waiting to take over our dreams.” —Gabriel García Márquez, from Living to Tell the Tale, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003)

“It is difficult to imagine the degree to which people lived then in the shadow of poetry.  It was a frenzied passion, another way of being, a fireball that went everywhere on its own.  We would open the paper, even the business section or the legal page, or we would read the coffee grounds at the bottom of the cup, and there was poetry waiting to take over our dreams.”

—Gabriel García Márquez, from Living to Tell the Tale, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003)

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