Monday, July 13, 2009

Thought for the Day: Julia Esquivel on Infinite Resurrection of Love and Hope

They wanted to silence the voices of love, but the words of the resurrected, repeated in a thousand echoes on the infinite horizon, tirelessly hammered upon their minute brain . . . . They have midget spirits.

Julia Esquivel, “Three Songs for My Mother,” in Threatened with Resurrection, trans. Maria Elena Avecedo, et al. (Elgin, Ill.: Brethren, 1982).