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Quiero hacer contigo lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos
[I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees]
-Pablo Neruda, Poema XIV (20 poemas de amor y una canción desesperada)
#VernalEquinox #春分の日
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“I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars."
-Wisława Szymborska, “Possibilities” trans. Stanislaw Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh
(my poet crush has the last word in the season of awakening insects)
#everynightapoem #驚蟄 #microseasons #poetry #translation #insects #szymborska -
You mentioned spring's delaying — I blamed her for the opposite.
I would eat evanescence slowly.
-#EmilyDickinson
letter to Elizabeth Holland (ltr 318)
#everynightapoem #ofsorts #march1 -
Counterpoint: from Auden
The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world.But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
'O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.W.H. Auden, from "As I Walked Out One Evening," 1940
full text: https://poets.org/poem/i-walked-out-one-evening
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「以冬日至，致天神人鬼。」
“On the winter solstice, we honor the gods in the heavens and the ghosts among us.”
-The Rites of Zhou 周禮 (2nd century BCE)
Dongzhi 冬至, rather than the new year, traditionally marked the starting point of the year’s microseasons with 9x9 days of winter.This has been a long year — years — of ghosts.
May the days ahead bring more light.
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"Avec ma main brûlée, j'ai le droit maintenant d'écrire des phrases sur la nature du feu.”
“With my burnt hand, I now have the right to write a few words on the nature of fire,” wrote Flaubert to his lover Louise Colet.
In Ingeborg Bachmann, the phrase reappears with a crucial excision. Writing from pain, but not asserting one's right to do so. “With my burnt hand, I write on the nature of fire.”
#everynightapoem #ofsorts
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