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Fernando Fontes – Everness

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Fernando Fontes – Director for Latin America. IE Business School Reading: Everness (fragment) by Jorge Luis Borges, (1899-1986) I’m going to read, or more accurately, recite, a fragment from a poem by José Luis Borges, called Everness. I first read Borges at university, aged 20, and I was hooked from the start, by his prose, as well […]

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Mingjin (Vera) Zhang – Bringing in the wine ( 将进酒 )

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Mingjin (Vera) Zhang – MDT 2017-2018 Student. IE Law School Reading: Bringing in the wine ( 将进酒 ) by Li Bai, 701 – 762. See how the Yellow River’s water move out of heaven. Entering the ocean,never to return. See how lovely locks in bright mirrors in high chambers, Though silken-black at morning, have changed by […]

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Victoria Jing Xiang – Yi Jianmei ( 一剪梅 )

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Victoria Jing Xiang – EMBA 2016 – 2017 Student. IE Business School. Reading: Yi Jianmei (一剪梅) by Li Qingzhao, 1084 – 1155. The fragrance of the red lotus has faded away. Autumn chill seeped through my jade-like mat. Gently I loosened my silk robe to board my magnolia boat alone. Who would send me your messages […]

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Mirian Andrea Tapia – Little stones at my window

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Mirian Andrea Tapia – Master in Visual and Digital Media 2017 Student. IE School of Human Sciences & Technology. IE University. Reading: Little stones at my window (Piedritas en la ventana) by Mario Benedetti, from book Cotidianas, 1979. Now and again happiness throws little stones at my window it wants to tell me that it’s waiting but I’m feeling calm […]

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Deniz Torcu – Like Kerem

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Deniz Torcu – Director of Executive Programs. Executive Education. IE Business School. Reading: Like Kerem by Nazım Hikmet, from Pictorial Moon magazine, 1930. Air heavy as lead!! Shout Shout Shout I am shouting. Run! I am calling you to melt lead. He tells me: -Hey! You’ll become ashes with your own voice! burning burning like […]

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Michael Wenderoth – Dedication

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Michael Wenderoth – IE Professor & Executive Coach. IE Business School. Reading: Dedication by Salman Rushdie, from the book Haroun and the Sea of Stories, 1990. Zembla, Zenda, Xanadu: All our dream-worlds may come true. Fairy lands are fearsome too. As I wander far from view Read, and bring me home to you.

Viet Ha Tran – Waves (Sóng)

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Viet Ha Tran – Senior Associate Director of Admissions. IE Business School. Reading: Waves (Sóng) by Xuan Quynh, from the book Hoa dọc chiến hào , 1968. Fierce and gentle. Loud and silent, The river doesn’t understand itself. The wave doesn’t find itself, until it reaches the sea. Oh the wave passes, And the wave […]

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Kriti Jain – Where the mind is without fear

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Kriti Jain – Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Professor. IE Business School. Reading: Where the mind is without fear by Rabindranath Tagore, from the book Gitanjali, 1910. Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls […]

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Angel Metodiev Angelov – A letter for you (Писмо до теб)

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Angel Metodiev Angelov – Communication Graduate Student. IE University. Reading: A letter for you / Писмо до теб by Damian Damianov (1935-1999). Look up! Stare at my eyes! Why? Don’t ask! Just stare at me. Caress me and just keep quiet… And, if you wish, we shall both keep quiet. Why? Don’t ask! You will understand. […]

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Paula Alvarez-Couceiro – La Dame aux Camélias (excerpt)

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Paula Alvarez-Couceiro – BIR 2016 Student. IE Business School. Reading: La Dame aux Camélias (excerpt – chapter 2, page 37) by Alexandre Dumas, fils, 1848. Set, in an oval of indescribable grace, two black eyes surmounted by eyebrows so pure a curve that it seemed as if painted; veil these eyes with lovely lashes, which, […]

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Liuyun Xiang – Xiangchou (Nostalgia)

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Liuyun Xiang – BIR Student. IE Business School. Reading: Xiangchou (Nostalgia) by Yu Guang Zhong, 1971. I was a child, Nostalgia seemed a small stamp: I was here… My mother was there. When I grew up Nostalgia became a ticket: I was here… My bride was there. Years later, Nostalgia was a little tomb: I was […]

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Soizic Belliard – L’Invitation au Voyage

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Soizic Belliard – Associate Director of Admissions MIR. IE Business School. Reading: L’Invitation au Voyage by Charles Baudelaire, from the book Les Fleurs du Mal, 1857. My child, my sister, Think of the rapture Of living together there! Of loving at will, Of loving till death, In the land that is like you! The misty sunlight […]

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María Cristina Mateo Rebollo – Prometheus Unbound (excerpt)

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María Cristina Mateo Rebollo – Executive Director of Architecture and Design. IE Business School. Reading: Prometheus Unbound (excerpt) by Percy Bysshe Shelley, from the book Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama, 1820. No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure. I ask the Earth, have not the mountains felt? I ask yon Heaven, the all-beholding Sun, Has […]

Pablo Sun Li – Shui Diao Ge Tou

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Pablo Sun Li – Associate Director of Communications. IE Business School. Reading: Shui Diao Ge Tou by Su Shi, from the book Song Ci, a type of ancient poems in Song Dynasty, China. How rare the moon, so round and clear! With cup in hand, I ask of the blue sky, “I do not know in the […]

Svea Freiberg – Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck im Havelland

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Svea Freiberg – BBA Student. IE Business School. Reading: Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck im Havelland by Theodor Fontane, from the book Gedichte Fontane, 1905. Squire von Ribbeck at Ribbeck in Havelland, In his garden there stood a pear tree grand, And when autumn came round, the golden tide, And pears were glowing far and wide, […]

Omar Alameddine – The Sweet Illusion

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Omar Alameddine – International MBA Student. IE Business School. Reading: The Sweet Illusion by Omar Alameddine, 2017. Mother, it’s good to see you in this room You’ve been missing me I assume I’m in lands covered in snow While you’re in fields where flowers bloom I can see you cooking my favorite meal Giving me hugs […]

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Benedict Onyedikachi Nwokedi – Yellow

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Benedict Onyedikachi Nwokedi – International MBA Student. IE Business School. Reading: Yellow by Dikachi Mann (Benedict Onyedikachi Nwokedi) from the book Colors Of An African Rainbow (Unpublished), 2017. I stand under these rays of hope Shoulders drooping from weights untold Sullen, strong, resolute and still hopeful I stand Constantly I hear the snicker of time Passing by like […]

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Noor Toshani – On this Land

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Noor Toshani – BBA Student. IE University. Reading: On this Land by Mahmoud Darwish from the book The Butterfly’s Burden, 1986. We have on this land that which makes life worth living We have on this land all of that which makes life worth living April’s hesitation The aroma of bread at dawn A woman’s beseeching […]

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Irene Corral – Passing Out

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Irene Corral – Assistant to the IE Chairman´s Office – IE Business School. Reading: Passing Out by Lope de Vega (1562-1635). . To pass out, to dare, to be furious, Hard, tender, generous, elusive, Emboldened, mortal, dead, alive, Loyal, treacherous, cowardly and undaunted: To find neither meaning nor rest beyond the bounds of good, To […]

Isabel Macías – First round

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Isabel Macías Núñez – Associate Director of Communications Department – IE Business School. Reading: First round by Isabel Macías Núñez, 2016. You unbuttoned my gaze with the impatience of child waiting for his mother to return. Now, I would like to thread myself into your thoughts and share the flowers of laughter, of the intimacy of an […]

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María Ángela Valencia – Black messengers

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María Ángela Valencia – LLM International Business Law Student. IE Business School. Reading: Black messengers by César Vallejo from the book Los heraldos negros, 1919. There are in life such hard blows . . . I don’t know! Blows seemingly from God’s wrath; as if before them the undertow of all our sufferings is embedded in […]

Grushenka Monsalve Berbesi – How many stars

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Grushenka Monsalve Berbesi – International Relations Student. IE University. Reading: How many stars by Andrés Eloy Blanco from the book Barco de Piedra, 1937. The last night we spent together, you asked: “How many stars are there in heaven?” “Three hundred and fifty thousand.” “Really?” “Really” Be quiet. I don’t want to hear those things tonight. […]

Joy Cierrea Archer Holmes- Still I rise

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Joy Cierrea Archer Holmes – LLB Student. IE University. Reading: Still I rise by Maya Angelou from the book And still I rise, 1978. You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why […]

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Geoffroy Gérard – The quest

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Geoffroy Gérard – Associate Director of Communications at IE – Ie University. Reading: The quest Jacques Brel version of the song: The impossible dream by Mitch Leigh (music) and Joe Darion (lyrics) from Man of La Mancha, 1964. To Dream the impossible dream To Bear the heartbreak of loss To Burn with greatest of fever To […]

Jesús Arcenegui Méndez – Long live my doubt

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Jesús Arcenegui Méndez – BBA-BIR Student. IE University. Reading: Long live my doubt by Jesús Arcenegui Méndez, 2015. Uncertainty circles round and round my head, Determined to show true lies, It comes along and throws everything up in the air. It just salts and destroys the planting. A bullet right in the neck, A noose to stop […]

Norman Kurtis – The first thanksgiving

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Norman Kurtis – Vice Dean of Behavior & Human Development, IE School of Human Sciences and Technology. Reading: The first thanksgiving by Edward Winslow, 1622. Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, so that we might, after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our […]

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Mario Palmer – For every hill i’ve had to climb

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Mario Palmer – IMBA Student. IE Business School. Reading: For every hill i’ve had to climb by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. For every hill I’ve had to climb, For every stone that bruised my feet, For all the blood and sweat and grime, For blinding storms and burning heat My heart sings but a igrateful song— These […]

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Arabdha Sudhir – The Aftermath

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Arabdha Sudhir – IE Business School Associate Director of Admissions. Reading: The Aftermath by Arabdha Sudhir, 2014. The flames rise and refrain.. Burnt soot still lingers on.. A faint reminder- of things left behind.. Broken fragments of another world.. Unfinished stories.. a haunting- that will forever remain.. In the deep dungeons we seldom visit.. Almost a part […]

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Fernando Dameto – Bird On The Wire

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Fernando Dameto – Deputy Director of Humanities. Reading: Bird on the wire by Leonard Cohen from the album Songs from a room, 1969. Like a bird on the wire, Like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free. Like a worm on a hook, Like a knight from some old […]

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David Vercammen – I will then be

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David Vercammen – Program Assistant IE University. Reading: I will then be by Louis Paul Boon from the book Collected Poems, 1979. I will then be gradually becoming a man feeling old a flower a poem on the lips and further crafting some air pollution and so I will then be gradually becoming a tidy old man […]

Aruna Iyer – The sorrow has reached the gigantic proportions of mountains

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Aruna Iyer – Graduate Student Master in Corporate Communication. IE Business School. Reading: The sorrow has reached the gigantic proportions of mountains by Dushyant Kumar Tyagi from the book Saaye Mein Dhoop, 1975. The sorrow has reached the gigantic proportions of mountains,it is time that a soothing Ganges emerges out to alleviate the pain. Yes, the walls have […]

Diego del Alcázar Benjumea – The returning waves

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Diego del Alcázar Benjumea – IE Vicepresident. Reading: The returning waves from The Tales of Ise, a collection of Japanese folk tales, 10th century. Once upon a time, a man who, due to various circumstances, found himself in a difficult situation in the capital left for the eastern provinces. When he arrived to the shore […]

David Hernández de la Fuente – The Bacchae

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David Hernández de la Fuente – Humanities Professor. IE University and UNED. Reading: The Bacchae by Euripides (ancient greek tragedy), 5th century b.c. I, the son of Zeus, have come to this land of the Thebans—Dionysus, whom once Semele, Kadmos’ daughter, bore, delivered by a lightning-bearing flame. And having taken a mortal form instead of […]

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Giedre Pavalkyte – Sweetness of Waiting

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Giedre Pavalkyte – IE Campus Life Manager. Reading: Sweetness of Waiting by Giedre Pavalkyte, 2015. There were pens, ink and paper, Letters, secretly appearing in your bag, Little sisters employed as messengers, Painful sweetness of waiting. There were emails, Connection problems, Caused by an unexpected rain, Text messages, enormous cellphones, Too big for your handbag, A feeling […]

Manuel Lucena Giraldo – Why Spain?

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Manuel Lucena Giraldo – Associate Professor of Humanities. IE University. Reading: Why Spain? by John H. Elliott from book History in the Making, 2012. I became a historian of Spain largely by accident. In the summer of 1950, near the end of my first year reading history in Cambridge University, I saw a notice in Varsity, the […]

Cécile Nolan – Demain dès l’aube

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Cécile Nolan – Bachelor in Communications Student. IE University. Reading: Demain dès l’aube by Victor Hugo from book Les Contemplations, 1856. Tomorrow, at dawn, the moment the countryside is whitened, I will leave. You see, I know that you’re waiting for me. I will go through the forest, I will go across the mountains. I cannot […]

Taiki Kubota – The Little Prince

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Taiki Kubota – Head Mentor & Mentorship Program Coordinator, Student Office. IE University. Reading: The Little Prince (chapter 21) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from book The Little Prince, 1943. The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time. “Please–tame me!” he said. “I want to, very much,” the little prince replied. “But I have not […]

Martina Cubric – Suburbian Ballad

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Martina Cubric – Psycology Student. IE University. Reading: Suburbian Ballad by Dobriša Cesarić (10 January 1902 – 18 December 1980) And the petroleum lamp sheds still Its red-orange light On the deep mud near the old fence And two, or three bricks on the road. And always the same paupers come Under its light from the darkness, And with […]

Antonella Carducci Artensio – Veglia

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Antonella Carducci Artensio – Business Administration & Law Student. IE University. Reading: Veglia by Giuseppe Ungaretti from the book L’allegria, 1916. A whole night thrown near a comrade massacred with his mouth snarling towards the full moon with the swelling of his hands penetrating my silence I wrote letters full of love I’ve never been more attached […]

Mariam Katsanashvili – Untitled poem by Tariel Kharkhelauri

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Mariam Katsanashvili – Business Administration & International Relations Student. IE University. Reading: Untitled poem by Tariel Kharkhelauri from the book The Symphony of Life, 2012. So, Let’s play, it’s not that hard. Don’t cling to salvaged days, If the body is free, then the soul is spared. Life chooses the rules for us. You don’t like […]

Felicia Appenteng – Winter Poem

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Felicia Appenteng – Managing Director,IE Fund and Board Liason, IE International Advisory Board. Reading: Winter Poem (book My House) by Nikki Giovanni, 1972. once a snowflake fell on my brow and i loved it so much and i kissed it and it was happy and called its cousins and brothers and a web of snow engulfed me then […]

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