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Ay, nothing can intimidate you, poet,

Not even the wind in the wires …

Lift your head

But may the words you write

Make sense.

—YOLANDA PANTIN,

“The Pelvic Bone”

They willed me bravery. I wasn’t brave.

—JORGE LUIS BORGES,

“Remorse”

translated by Willis Barnstone

I too was reared, like thee, in exile.

—SOPHOCLES

translated by F. Storr