Sobrevivo claribel alegria quotes

Clara Isabel Alegría Vides (May 12, 1924 – January 25, 2018), also known by her pseudonym Claribel Alegría, was a Nicaraguan-Salvadoran poet, essayist, novelist, and journalist who was a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central America.

She was awarded the 2006 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

Sobrevivo claribel alegria quotes

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• The art and the reality is very difficult sometimes to reconcile, but also I don’t think that the poet have to be in an ivory tower just thinking beautiful thoughts, you know, when there are so much horrible in — ‘mid you, you know, outside you.

  And then I think you have to go and look at that and feel it and suffer with the others and make that suffering useful.

Interview (2017)

• I am so grateful for poetry...Poetry sustains us.

• poetry to me is something sacred.

  If you want to be a poet, it’s very difficult.

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  You have to listen to that voice, follow that voice. Never put poetry to the service of anything. No! We are at the