Ilya Kaminsky quotes

“The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.”
-- Ilya Kaminsky

#Language Quotes

“But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.”
-- Ilya Kaminsky

Source : Ilya Kaminsky (2014). “Dancing in Odessa”, p.9, Arc Publications

#Men Quotes #Silence Quotes #Secret Quotes

“Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city”
-- Ilya Kaminsky

#Hands Quotes #Cities Quotes #Twins Quotes

“The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.2, Courier Corporation

“Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.”

Source : Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. May 19, 2014.

“I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.”

“I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Speak the language of the person you want to become.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

“Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.”

“Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.”

“There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.”

“When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.”

“It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.”