Beautiful quote
I was googling for information on Idir (excellent, beautiful, Algerian music that's excellent for belly dancing) and I found this little one:
"There is no higher form of belonging to a culture than to compose in its language"
Heinrich Böll.
Do I belong to an English-speaking culture? Maybe. A few days ago I told a friend what I write in each language. English is for most of the haikus, for the very bad prose (that I write as a way of avoiding that "oh my God I haven't written anything in ages, I must be going through a block" panic), and for approximately half the prose.
Spanish? Spanish is the motor of about 20% of the haikus, all the free verse, and about half the good prose. So, it´s all very mixed; it has been like that since I started and it will probably stay like that for a long time.
"There is no higher form of belonging to a culture than to compose in its language"
Heinrich Böll.
Do I belong to an English-speaking culture? Maybe. A few days ago I told a friend what I write in each language. English is for most of the haikus, for the very bad prose (that I write as a way of avoiding that "oh my God I haven't written anything in ages, I must be going through a block" panic), and for approximately half the prose.
Spanish? Spanish is the motor of about 20% of the haikus, all the free verse, and about half the good prose. So, it´s all very mixed; it has been like that since I started and it will probably stay like that for a long time.