Visar Zhiti Quotes

#1. Let them shoot us in the head,
My blood will grow roots
and will blossom.

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#2. ABYSS
Our country lives
Among the dead
And dies among the living
Sometimes.

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#3. Could it be that the planets are castaway heads.

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#4. When will the death
Of Death ever come?
from The Siege

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#5. Innocent droplets of rain
Make almost all events
Quite natural.
(from "A Rainy Day")

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#6. IN OUR CELLS
They keep us in our cells
For a long time ...
And, if we get out,
We lug them with us on our shoulders,
Like a porter with a chest of goods.

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#7. It rains
And rains
And rains.
But there is a sky above the rain,
Nothing can rot the sky.
Earth has turned to mud. What of it?
The heart of the planet is made of fire, of ardent sun.
(from "A Rainy Day")

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#8. The forest has shrunk
And fear has expanded,
The forests have dwindled,
There are less animals now,
less courage and less lightning,
less beauty
and the moon lies bare,
deflowered by force and
then abandoned.

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#9. Only with a leaf
can I talk of the forest,

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#10. Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.
(from "Gratitude")

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#11. SECOND SUN
So much blood
Has been spent in this world,
But we have not yet built a sun of blood.
Listen, my friend,
To these trembling words:
A second sun will be born
of our blood
in the form of a heart.

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#12. SOWING LIGHTNING
Seize
Bolts of lightning from the sky
And plant them in fields of life.
They will grow like tender sprouts of fire.
Charge somber thoughts
With unexpected flash,
You, my lightning in the soil!

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#13. TIME
Time
And how it slips through my fingers
Without putting its ring on them,
And I remain simply its lover

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