Wisława Szymborska
Forugh Farrokhzad
I am you, you
and the one who loves
and the one who suddenly finds
a vague connection within herself
with thousands of unknown, unfamiliar things.
– Forough Farrokhzad ‘Sin’, from ‘Forough Farrokhzad: Poet of Modern Iran’ (I.B. Tauris: London, 2010), p. 17.
Cecilia Vicuña
A sound birthing its own death.
– Cecilia Vicuña ‘Read Thread – The Story of the Red Thread‘ (Stenberg Press: Berlin, 2017), p. 84
