Writing and culture are very much related to the possibilities of the human imagination. The capacity of language allows the imagination to flow and … - Marjorie Agosín

To write is also to bear witness, to resist the dehumanization of the world, and to tell and reveal.

how to become someone else-that's perhaps the greatest challenge for a translator because to become someone else is to become compassionate. To become someone else, you have to be in love with someone else. And in that sense I strongly believe that translations are acts of love

Life is sacred, but I also think a book is sacred. The way we bury the Torah speaks in a very symbolic way of the power of words. There is a strong correspondence, and it is the sacredness of beauty and dignity. Although for me, nothing is more sacred than human life. (2016)