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> [“I will praise your madness, and in a language not mine, speak of music that wakes us, music in which we move. For whatever I say is a kind of petition, and the darkest days must I praise.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilya-kaminsky/i-will-praise-your-madness-and-in-a-language-not-mine-speak-of-music/)

[Ilya Kaminsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilya-kaminsky/)

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## More by Ilya Kaminsky

> [“A Ballad of Going Down to the Store First I went down to the street by means of the stairs, just imagine it, by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilya-kaminsky/a-ballad-of-going-down-to-the-store-first-i-went-down-to-the-street/)

[Ilya Kaminsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilya-kaminsky/)

> [“Author's Prayer If I speak for the dead, I must leave this animal of my body, I must write the same poem over and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilya-kaminsky/author-s-prayer-if-i-speak-for-the-dead-i-must-leave-this-animal-of/)

[Ilya Kaminsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilya-kaminsky/)

> [Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilya-kaminsky/time-my-twin-take-me-by-the-hand-through-the-streets-of-your-city/)

[Ilya Kaminsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilya-kaminsky/)

> [“I believe that no great lyric poet ever speaks in the so-called “proper” language of his or her time. Emily Dickinson didn’t write in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilya-kaminsky/i-believe-that-no-great-lyric-poet-ever-speaks-in-the-so-called/)

[Ilya Kaminsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilya-kaminsky/)

> [But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilya-kaminsky/but-in-the-secret-history-of-anger-one-man-s-silence-lives-in-the/)

[Ilya Kaminsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilya-kaminsky/)

> [“One would think of a boy laying syllables with his tongue onto a woman’s skin: those are lines sewn entirely of silence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilya-kaminsky/one-would-think-of-a-boy-laying-syllables-with-his-tongue-onto-a/)

[Ilya Kaminsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilya-kaminsky/)

> [“I will praise your madness, and in a language not mine, speak of music that wakes us, music in which we move. For whatever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilya-kaminsky/i-will-praise-your-madness-and-in-a-language-not-mine-speak-of-music/)

[Ilya Kaminsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilya-kaminsky/)

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