Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky
Top 10 Best Quotes
“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”
“And when they bombed other people's houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisble house by invisble house -- I tooka a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth month of a disastrous reignin the house of money in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war.”
“You can fuck anyone—but with whom can you sit in water?”
“The deaf don't believe in silence. Silence is the invention of the hearing.”
“Lord, such fire from a match you never lit.”
“I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright.”
“What is silence? Something of the sky in us.”
“The body of the boy lies on the asphalt like a paperclip. The body of the boy lies on the asphalt like the body of a boy.”
“Question What is a child? A quiet between two bombardments.”
“She scrubs me until I spit soapy water. Pig, she smiles. A man should smell better than his country— such is the silence of a woman who speaks against silence, knowing silence moves us to speak. She throws my shoes and glasses in the air, I am of deaf people and I have no country but a bathtub and an infant and a marriage bed! Soaping together is sacred to us. Washing each other’s shoulders. You can fuck anyone—but with whom can you sit in water?”
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Book Keywords:
echo, god, poetry, allow
