
“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.”
Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.”
Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“The sparrow flies south for the winter.”
Source: Death Bringer
“My fellow South Africans — the people of South Africa:
This is indeed a joyous night.”
1990s, Victory speech (1994)
Context: My fellow South Africans — the people of South Africa:
This is indeed a joyous night. Although not yet final, we have received the provisional results of the election, and are delighted by the overwhelming support for the African National Congress.
To all those in the African National Congress and the democratic movement who worked so hard these last few days and through these many decades, I thank you and honour you. To the people of South Africa and the world who are watching: this a joyous night for the human spirit. This is your victory too. You helped end apartheid, you stood with us through the transition.
“Longer than a winter's night for a man who is ill-wed.”
Más largo
que una noche de Diciembre
para un hombre mal casado.
"Murmuraban los rocines", line 94, cited from Poesias de D. Luis de Gongora y Argote (Madrid: Imprenta Nacional, 1820) p. 83. Translation from Henry Baerlein The House of the Fighting-cocks (London: Leonard Parsons, 1922) p. 92.
“I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.”