Tuesday, October 16, 2012
TASTE
Wir kannten nicht sein unerhörtes Haupt,
darin die Augenäpfel reiften. Aber
sein Torso glüht noch wie ein Kandelaber,
in dem sein Schauen, nur zurückgeschraubt,
sich hält und glänzt.
We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,
gleams in all its power.
- from Archaischer Torso Apollos
R.M. Rilke
Trans. Stephen Mitchell
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
se vende Gentleman
for hence cometh the glorious hymn and
entereth into the minds of the skilled in song,
so that they celebrate the son of Kronos,
when to the rich and happy hearth of Hieron they are come.
- from For Hieron of Syracuse, Winner in the Horse-Race
Pindar
Y alzaremos en ritmo vibrante y alocado
la sublime mentira de habernos encontrado.
Yo, en la nada insensible de tu hora perdida,
y tú, en la también nada de mi frívola vida.
- from Dame tu hora perdida
Julia de Burgos
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