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Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas- Translated with an Introduction by Ruth Katz Crispin
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“I don’t want you to leave,
heartache, the last form
of loving. I feel myself
live when you hurt me
not in yourself, or here, but further:
in the earth, in the year
you come from,
in my love for her
and everything it meant.
In that sunken
reality which denies
itself and insists
that it never existed,
that it was only a pretext
of mine for living.
If you didn’t stay with me,
heartache, irrefutably,
I would believe that;
but you do stay with me.
Your truth assures me
that nothing was a lie.
And as long as I feel you,
heartache, you will be
the proof of another life
in which you didn’t hurt me.
The great proof, in the distance,
that it existed, that it still exists,
that she loved me, yes,
that I’m still loving her.
—Pedro Salinas, from “The Voice I Owe to You,” Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas (Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2009)”
― Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas- Translated with an Introduction by Ruth Katz Crispin
heartache, the last form
of loving. I feel myself
live when you hurt me
not in yourself, or here, but further:
in the earth, in the year
you come from,
in my love for her
and everything it meant.
In that sunken
reality which denies
itself and insists
that it never existed,
that it was only a pretext
of mine for living.
If you didn’t stay with me,
heartache, irrefutably,
I would believe that;
but you do stay with me.
Your truth assures me
that nothing was a lie.
And as long as I feel you,
heartache, you will be
the proof of another life
in which you didn’t hurt me.
The great proof, in the distance,
that it existed, that it still exists,
that she loved me, yes,
that I’m still loving her.
—Pedro Salinas, from “The Voice I Owe to You,” Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas (Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2009)”
― Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas- Translated with an Introduction by Ruth Katz Crispin
“And for however long you do not come,
I’ll wait on the brink
of flights, of dreams,
of comet trails, motionless.
Because I know that neither wings,
nor wheels nor sails can travel
to where I once was.
They have all gone astray.
Because I know that to reach where I was
can only
be with you, be through you.
—Pedro Salinas, from “The Voice I Owe to You,” Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas (Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2009)”
― Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas- Translated with an Introduction by Ruth Katz Crispin
I’ll wait on the brink
of flights, of dreams,
of comet trails, motionless.
Because I know that neither wings,
nor wheels nor sails can travel
to where I once was.
They have all gone astray.
Because I know that to reach where I was
can only
be with you, be through you.
—Pedro Salinas, from “The Voice I Owe to You,” Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas (Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2009)”
― Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas- Translated with an Introduction by Ruth Katz Crispin
