Country Girl

I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, to be lucky enough to live in these two intensities that have buttressed my whole life.

M-am gandit la multele recompense ale vietii, ca am cunoscut extremitatile bucuriei si tristetii, dragostei, succesului si esecului, faimei si macelului, ca am citit in ziare ca, ca scriitor, am depasit data limita de vanzare, dar, indiferent, continua sa scriu si sa citesc, sa am norocul sa traiesc in aceste doua intensitati care mi-au sustinut toata viata.