Fehér Renátó

Poet.

[Fehér Renátó @renatofeher]

Radio L∞p

[Fehér Renátó @renatofeher]

They sleep in there, the room is just a box,
but in their waking dreams it is a place
of beauty. Can't they see the paradox?
It is a cage that stares them in the face.

--Dezső Kosztolányi
tr. Peter Zollman

[Fehér Renátó @renatofeher]

"Like clots of blood
these words fall
before you.
Existence stutters"

--Attila József
tr. Tamás Kabdebó

[Fehér Renátó @renatofeher]

Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.

--Delmore Schwartz

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Thank you Bernie - for doing your best to fight for all of us, from the beginning, for your entire life.

Thank you for fighting hard, lonely fights in true devotion to a people’s movement in the United States.

Thank you for your leadership, mentorship, and example. We love you.

[Valzhyna Mort @ValzhynaMort]

“Whether you like it or not,
your genes have a political past,
your skin, a political cast,
your eyes, a political slant.

Whatever you say reverberates,
whatever you don’t say speaks for itself.
So either way you’re talking politics.”

- Wislawa Szymborska

[Modern Poetry in Translation @MPTmagazine]

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Renátó Fehér, ‘Slack Season’
Translated by @OwenDGood

Ezequiel Zaidenwerg and Mirta Rosenberg, from Bichos
Translated by Professor Ben Bollig and Mark Leech

Aonghas MacNeacail, two poems
Translated by @amacneacail

Maria Stepanova, two songs
Translated by @SashaDugdale

[WorldLiteratureToday @worldlittoday]

Two poems from Hungarian writer Renátó Fehér (translated by Owen Good).

“Boys were trained here once to give orders,
thick combat coats smothered the sound
of heroism cracking in their rib cages, like
the brink of a frozen fountain.”

https://t.co/Z9jGsBz7jY

[Fehér Renátó @renatofeher]

Peace to the cottages! War on the palaces!
--Georg Büchner
tr. John Reddick

PEACE TO THE PALACES AND DEVIL TAKE THE REST.
--Volker Braun
tr. Michael Hoffmann

Having levelled my palace, don’t erect a hovel
--Emily Brontë

[Fehér Renátó @renatofeher]

What is a child? / A quiet between two bombardments.
(Ilya Kaminsky)

A Breath-long Silence, While the Firing Squad Reloads
(Imre Kertész)

[Fehér Renátó @renatofeher]

„Our hearing doesn’t weaken, but something silent in us strengthens.”

--Ilya Kaminsky

[Fehér Renátó @renatofeher]

"When language leaves all you have left is tone, all you have left are smoke signals. I didn't know she was using her own body as wood."

--Victoria Chang

[Fehér Renátó @renatofeher]

„I tried to look ahead, but the prospect stretched only to tomorrow, while tomorrow was an identical day, that is to say, another day exactly the same as today—in the best case, of course.”

--Imre Kertész
tr. Tim Wilkinson

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Throughout history, authoritarian leaders have used moments of crisis to seize unchecked power. Hungary’s Orban is the latest example. Now more than ever we must stand up for democracy and rule of law. https://t.co/NWjKNPvGxp

[Fehér Renátó @renatofeher]

"Harder days are coming.
The day of reckoning
looms on the horizon."

--Ingeborg Bachmann
tr. Paul Archer

[Fehér Renátó @renatofeher]

…The neighborhood sadness of pulmonary phthisis,
And all the metropolitan wretchedness.

(Oh! and then, do you know, apart from the pianos,
Each week, austere twilight mystery,
The journalistic
Vital statistics?)

--Jules Laforgue
tr. Patricia Terry

[Fehér Renátó @renatofeher]

"let us go on, as if all arose from one and the same weariness, on and on heaping up and up, until there is no room, no light, for any more."

--Samuel Beckett

[John Iadarola @johniadarola]

They're going to tell you to go back to work. To go back to normal.

They'll pitch it as patriotism. It isn't. It's a sacrifice. They're sacrificing you to protect Wall Street.

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

In 2016, Bernie Sanders did 39 rallies for Hillary Clinton, he spent more time in Wisconsin than she did. And he convinced the vast majority of his supporters to vote for her, despite the fact that the Clinton campaign and DNC shit all over them and their issues. That’s a fact.

[Fehér Renátó @renatofeher]

Bernie Sanders, 1978.
Konrád György, 1975.

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

The Rutland Herald in 1978 went around asking people their New Year's resolutions. And everyone's was like 'I want to quit smoking' and 'finish high school' and Bernie Sanders' was I want to make people wake up to the radical change need in society.

[Fehér Renátó @renatofeher]

"kialakítható-e a szociáldemokrata és az államszocialista modell között térségünkön egy olyan autonóm szocialista modell, amelynek különösségét az adja, hogy nincsen tőkésosztályunk, s nem is vágyunk rá, hogy legyen, sokkal inkább igényeljük viszont a demokratikus önkormányzatot"