The Angel of History QUOTES

1 " the silence of God is God. "

― Carolyn Forché , The Angel of History

3 " The memories are few and like dreams of her life resuming a muted sound of snow    falling into itself. "

― Carolyn Forché , The Angel of History

5 " The tanks dug ladders in the earth no one was able to climb In every war someone puts a cigarette in the corpse’s mouth And the corpse The corpse is never mentioned In the hours before his empty body was found It was this, this life that he longed for, this that he wrote of desiring, Yet this life leaves out everything for which he lived "

― Carolyn Forché , The Angel of History

7 " Do Americans think of us? So she began as we squatted over the toilets: If you want, I’ll tell you, but nothing I say will be enough. "

― Carolyn Forché , The Angel of History