"I am green and you are red"
Leader, Aygi, Amichai, Lowell, García Lorca
Mary Leader:
Gennady Aygi (tr. from Russian by Sarah Valentine):
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Yehuda Amichai (tr. from Hebrew by Leon Wieseltier):
Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop, March 10, 1962:
Federico García Lorca:
Poetry is something that walks the street. It moves, passing right beside us. All things have their mystery, and poetry is the mystery of all things.
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