Robert Hass
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“Whatever the color and condition of things, open your eyes.”
Below is Robert Hass’s version of Aijaz Ahmad’s literal translation of a Ghalib ghazal: The happiness of a drop of water is to die into a river. When pain is unbearable, pain becomes the medicine. We are so weak our tears become a mild sighing. Now we really believe that water can turn into air.…
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Two a Rhythm of the Mind
“6. Greek mathematicians did not think one was a number because the concept one did not involve number. To them, two was the first number. And the hybrid marriage of one, which was not a number, and two, which was, begot three, the second number. And from one, two, and three, all other numbers proceeded,…
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