“If you get to Hell, go down all the way: there’s heaven. Everything returns.”— Sándor Weöres, from “The Gate of Teeth,” written c. September 1959
“Come. Make me dream that I am healing.”— Albert Geiger, tr. by Jethro Bithell, from Selections; “The Dying Maiden,”
“I love you, I love you, and you know it, I haven’t been able to hide it from you completely,”— Thomas Mann, tr. by Willard R. Trask, from “The Black Swan,” wr. c. 1954