Alejandra Pizarnik
Poet
1936-04-29 – 1972-09-25
Alejandra Pizarnik was an Argentine poet known for surreal, introspective verse and influential twentieth-century Spanish-language poetry. Her books include Árbol de Diana and Extracción de la piedra de locura. She remains a major literary voice in Latin American modernism.
Quotes by Alejandra Pizarnik
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Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors
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But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory. Never did anyone wish so hard not to grow old; I mean, to die. That is why, perhaps, she acted and played the role of Death. Because, how can Death possibly die?
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But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory. Never did anyone wish so hard not to grow old; I mean, to die. That is why, perhaps, she acted and played the role of Death. Because, how can Death possibly die?
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Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors
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I redo the body of my poem like someone who tries to cure her own wound.
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