Nina Cassian Quotes

Romania, Poet
November 27, 1924 – April, 14, 2014.

Nina Cassian (pen name of Renée Annie Cassian-Mătăsaru) was a Romanian poet, translator, journalist, accomplished pianist and composer, and film critic.

Also known as Translator, Journalist, Pianist, Composer, Film Critic

Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one sees how round and sharp my eyes have grown how my carcass looks like a glass urn, how I hold up things in the rags of my hands, the way I can stand through crippled by lust. No, there's just your cruelty circling my head like a bright rotting halo.

Nina Cassian
- Eyes
- Dark
- Hands
I came from the sea and to the sea I would return, to be immersed in her story, ever lost and everlasting.

Nina Cassian
- Story
- Sea
- Return