Adelia Prado quotes
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“Suffering belongs to no language.”
-- Adelia PradoSource : Adélia Prado (2011). “The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems”, p.44, Wesleyan University Press
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“Destiny doesn't exist. It's God we need, and fast.”
-- Adelia PradoSource : Adélia Prado (2011). “The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems”, p.3, Wesleyan University Press
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“I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.”
-- Adelia Prado
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“Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.”
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“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
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“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”
Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
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