Luis Soares's Blog, page 720
March 4, 2012
March 3, 2012
Pavese em inglês
Death will come and will wear your eyes –
the death that is with us
from morning to evening, sleepless,
deaf, like an old regret
or an absurd vice. Your eyes
will be a futile word,
a cry kept silent, a silence.
Thus you see them every morning
when alone you stoop over yourself
in the mirror. O dear hope,
that day we too will know
that you are life and nothingness.
Death keeps an eye on each of us.
Death will come and will have your eyes.
It will be like giving up a vice,
like watching a dead face
re-emerge ...
March 1, 2012
Anne Sexton - Music Swims Back To Me
Wait Mister. Which way is home?
They turned the light out
and the dark is moving in the corner.
There are no sign posts in this room,
four ladies, over eighty,
in diapers every one of them.
La la la, Oh music swims back to me
and I can feel the tune they played
the night they left me
in this private institution on a hill.
Imagine it. A radio playing
and everyone here was crazy.
I liked it and danced in a circle.
Music pours over the sense
and in a funny way
music sees more than I.
I mean it remembers...
A importância de um "day job".
Na sua Autobiografia, William Carlos Williams fala da escolha da medicina como carreira e não da poesia. Não conseguindo viver da escrita, querendo muito escrever, precisava de um day job que o sustentasse. Escolheu medicina. Aqui ao lado a fotografia do poeta no seu passaporte de 1921. Aqui abaixo a explicação. Vale a pena ler.
No one was ever going to be in a position to tell me what to write, and you can say that again. No one, and I meant no one (for money) was ever (never) going to tell...
February 29, 2012
February 28, 2012
We need to talk about Ezra Miller.
É o próprio Que se danem os óscares e aquela exploração nostálgica do cinema, de costas para o futuro, suspirando pelo passado. Filmes como este sacodem-me muito mais que os...
