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plan to enrich a few well-connected US publishers and pedagogues, this represented a direct assault on four hundred years of language and culture under the guise of “civilizing a savage people.”4
Nelson Denis • War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
Mais c’est aussi la culture française que je faisais mienne, de Montaigne à Montesquieu, de Voltaire à Diderot, de Rousseau à Hugo, qui me vouait à l’universalisme.
Edgar Morin • La Voie : Pour l'avenir de l'Humanité (Essais) (French Edition)
The smaller the country the larger the stamps. He who lives alone is always on sentry duty. When our friends leave us, they take away our shores. One of Hamilton Finlay’s last exhibitions, in Edinburgh in 2005, was simply titled ‘Sentences’. All the exhibits were monostichs, one-sentence poems, painted in different colours on the white walls, like
... See moreJoe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
the death of a language would mean the death of its poetry.
Andre Alexis • Fifteen Dogs
Hans Ulrich Obrist • Hans Ulrich Obrist and ISOLARII's Sebastian Clark Discuss Fashion, Commerce, and Publishing
people like Tranströmer and Ondaatje and Wisława Szymborska are touchstones for me. It’s a long list: George Seferis, Anne Carson, Charles Simic, Sharon Olds, Seamus Heaney: anyone who has found a way to sidestep conventional syntax.
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
En Oulé, en Massa, en Go, le mot « nation » n'existait pas, et les barrières entre tribus demeuraient toujours dressées. Celles du langage également : il avait passé le plus clair de son activité politique à répandre et à stimuler l'enseignement du français, écrasant les dialectes, afin de préparer les voies de pénétration indispensables à la
... See moreRomain Gary • Les racines du ciel (French Edition)
