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Judith Herzberg

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TACKING-THREAD

I am no longer the one who remembers it
I am the one to whom it happened.

I am no longer the one to whom it happened
I am the one who no longer remembers it.

I am the one who remembers it
but not the one to whom it happened.

Ik ben degene niet meer die het zich herinnert

Ik ben degene niet meer die het zich herinnert
ik ben degene die het overkwam.

Ik ben degene niet meer die het overkwam
ik ben degene die het zich niet meer herinnert.

Ik ben degene die het zich herinnert
maar niet degene die het overkwam.

From: Wat zij wilde schilderen
Publisher: De Harmonie,

Judith Herzberg

Judith Herzberg

(The Netherlands, 1934)

Judith Herzberg is one of the most famous living poets in the Netherlands; a selection of her work, in the form of a Rainbow Pocket, published in 1994, reached what was for poetry an exceptionally large audience. Many translators have taken up the challenge of translating her poems into other languages, which has also gained her considerable fame in other countries, but their translations – as ...

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TACKING-THREAD

I am no longer the one who remembers it
I am the one to whom it happened.

I am no longer the one to whom it happened
I am the one who no longer remembers it.

I am the one who remembers it
but not the one to whom it happened.

From: Wat zij wilde schilderen

TACKING-THREAD

I am no longer the one who remembers it
I am the one to whom it happened.

I am no longer the one to whom it happened
I am the one who no longer remembers it.

I am the one who remembers it
but not the one to whom it happened.

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