“Palabras Mutiladas” — The Mutilated Words That Make Us “Search For Asylum” In Creativity

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The Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik wrote this in the middle of one of her poems in 1965 (when she was 29) and it made me think of the writing process:

“And there is, in this waiting,

a rumor of breaking lilac.