"Toasted susie is my ice-cream"
García Lorca, Kafka, Villon, Stein, Frame, Jacob, Jiménez
Federico García Lorca:
Once they asked me what poetry was, and I remembered a friend of mine and said: “Poetry? Well, it is the union of two words that one never supposed could be joined, and which produce a sort of mystery; and the more one pronounces them, the more mysterious they become.”
Franz Kafka (trans. Michael Hofmann):
François Villon (trans. Galway Kinnell):
Gertrude Stein:
Janet Frame:
Max Jacob (trans. Roseanna Warren):
Juan Ramón Jiménez (trans. Christopher Maurer):
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