Spanish is not only the language of my soul, but it’s the language of the memory, of my emotions, the first language I began to write and to think in. - Marjorie Agosín

"Yes, I am a refugee. And it is a beautiful word, a beautiful thing. I am an exile. That means I am a traveler of the world and I belong to nothing but the things I love." (p454)

I've become fascinated with translation myself because I've begun to do some translations from the English to the Spanish. And I have learned the beauty and the humbleness and the delicacy that it takes to translate one poem from one language to the other. It's really a work of love, translation.

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