Gerald Stern: "Anda bisa dilampirkan hanya pada deskripsi tanaman atau...

"Anda bisa dilampirkan hanya pada deskripsi tanaman atau bunga. Atau narasi suatu peristiwa. Atau marah karena ketidakadilan. Yesaya dan nabi-nabi Ibrani lainnya, dalam kemurkaan mereka, semuanya terikat - sama sekali tidak terlepas, meskipun ketika saya memikirkan kata "detasemen," saya juga memikirkan selembar kertas, lepas dari buku catatannya, berkibar di suatu tempat di angin mencoba menemukan rumahnya lagi."

--- Gerald Stern

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Versi Bahasa Inggris

You could be attached to merely a description of a plant or a flower. Or a narrative of an event. Or rage at injustice. Isaiah and the other Hebrew prophets, in their rage, were being altogether attached - not at all detached, although as I think of the word "detachment," I also think of a sheet of paper, loose from its notebook, fluttering around somewhere in the wind trying to find its home again.