Poems & News: Når kommer jeg så langt i visdom at jeg slutter å ...

Poems & News: Når kommer jeg så langt i visdom at jeg slutter å ...: What I write's not mine, not mine... Whom do I owe it to? Whose herald was I born to be? How was I fooled    Into thinking t...

Når kommer jeg så langt i visdom at jeg slutter å si visdomsord? --- When do I come so far in wisdom that I stop saying words of wisdom? --- Wann komme ich so weit in Weisheit, dass ich aufhöre, Worte der Weisheit zu sagen? --- ¿Cuándo llego tan lejos en sabiduría que dejo de decir palabras de sabiduría? --- Quand est-ce que je viens si loin dans la sagesse que j'arrête de dire des paroles de sagesse?

What I write's not mine, not mine...
Whom do I owe it to?
Whose herald was I born to be?
How was I fooled
   Into thinking that I had was mine?
Who gave it to me?
Whatever the case, if my destiny
   Is to be the death
   Of another life that lives in me,
   Then I, who was
   By some illusion this entire
   Ostensible life,
   Am grateful to the One who lifted me
   From the dust I am---
   The One for whom I, this upraised dust,
   Am just a symbol.
Whom do I owe it to?

Poems & News: What matters is love. Sex is just an accident; It ...

Poems & News: What matters is love. Sex is just an accident; It ...: Ce qui compte c'est l'amour.  Le sexe est juste un accident.  Cela peut être identique ou différent.  L'homme n'est p...

What matters is love. Sex is just an accident; It can be the same or different. Man isn't an animal; He's an intelligent flesh, Though subject to sickness...

Ce qui compte c'est l'amour. 
Le sexe est juste un accident. 
Cela peut être identique ou différent. 
L'homme n'est pas un animal; 
Il est une chair intelligente, 
Bien que sujet à la maladie ...

Was zählt, ist Liebe. 
Sex ist nur ein Zufall; 
Es kann gleich oder anders sein. 
Der Mensch ist kein Tier; 
Er ist ein intelligentes Fleisch, 
   obwohl er krank ist ...

Lo que importa es amor 
El sexo es solo un accidente; 
Puede ser lo mismo o diferente. 
El hombre no es un animal; 
Él es una carne inteligente, 
   aunque sujeto a la enfermedad ...

Poems & News: Også et eldre ansikt er vakkert. Språket har ingen...

Poems & News: Også et eldre ansikt er vakkert. Språket har ingen...: Also, an older face is beautiful.  The language has no words for this beauty     that reflects in the eyes of God and is     with...

Også et eldre ansikt er vakkert. Språket har ingen ord for denne skjønnhet som speiler seg i Guds øye og er uten markedsverdi.

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Also, an older face is beautiful. 
The language has no words for this beauty 
   that reflects in the eyes of God and is 
   without market value...

Auch ein älteres Gesicht ist schön. 
Die Sprache hat keine Worte für 
   diese Schönheit, die in den 
Augen Gottes widerspiegelt und ohne 
Marktwert ist.

Aussi, un visage plus âgé est beau. 
La langue n'a pas de mots pour cette 
   beauté qui reflète aux yeux de Dieu 
   et est sans valeur marchande.

Poems & News: I slottsparken; Under en spasertur i Slottsparken ...

Poems & News: I slottsparken; Under en spasertur i Slottsparken ...: Ho "Hawai Kitty" på tur til "Tigerstaden" Sammen med ho "Hansine i Porten" Begge Hadde vært i "Rosekje...

Poems & News: Through all the changing scenes of life, in troubl...

Poems & News: Through all the changing scenes of life, in troubl...: Some words about the cries in our economic  world to day and in the past. Mostly is created  by lack of knowledge of our politicians and  ...

Poems & News: Was ist dein Ziel in der Philosophie ? - Der Flieg...

Poems & News: Was ist dein Ziel in der Philosophie ? - Der Flieg...: What is your aim in Philosophy ? To show the fly the way out of the fly - bottle. It is a good rule in life never to  apologize. The r...

Poems & News: But I`m not so think as you drunk I am...

Poems & News: But I`m not so think as you drunk I am...: If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express flight to bring it; But if you want a lie to go round the world, it wil...

Poems & News: If I had your smile awaiting me...

Poems & News: If I had your smile awaiting me...: If I had your smile awaiting me, the train would recite, across the flat fields of Europe, the syllables of your name. If I had you...

Poems & News: If each thing has its corresponding god, why shoul...

Poems & News: If each thing has its corresponding god, why shoul...: Poor children... Nothing of nothing remains, We're nothing. In the sun and air we put off briefly What we see, What we feel, ...

Poems & News: Die Politik ist die Lehre vom Møglichen... Politic...

Poems & News: Die Politik ist die Lehre vom Møglichen... Politic...: Look into my ocean, My name is Used-to-was; I am also called  Played-out  and Done-to-death, And it-will-wash-no-more... In an...

Poems & News: Som du tier i skogen, får du svar...

Poems & News: Som du tier i skogen, får du svar...: With serving still This have I won: For my good will To be undone. And for redress Of all my pain Disdainfulness I have again Se...

Poems & News: En skal ikke skildre dype følelser i høye toner......

Poems & News: En skal ikke skildre dype følelser i høye toner......: My heart is a mad admiral Who quit his life at sea And remembers it little by little At home, pacing, pacing... With this motion (t...

Poems & News: Å være menneske er en sykdom. Helbredelse er umuli...

Poems & News: Å være menneske er en sykdom. Helbredelse er umuli...: Being human is a disease. Healing is impossible,  but all our endeavors consist in finding a painkiller ... Mensch sein ist eine K...

Poems & News: En skal ikke skildre dype følelser i høye toner......

Poems & News: En skal ikke skildre dype følelser i høye toner......: My heart is a mad admiral Who quit his life at sea And remembers it little by little At home, pacing, pacing... With this motion (t...

Poems & News: En skal ikke skildre dype følelser i høye toner......

Poems & News: En skal ikke skildre dype følelser i høye toner......: My heart is a mad admiral Who quit his life at sea And remembers it little by little At home, pacing, pacing... With this motion (t...

En skal ikke skildre dype følelser i høye toner...--- One should not portray deep feelings in high tones ...--- On ne devrait pas décrire des sentiments profonds dans les tons élevés ...--- Uno no debe retratar sentimientos profundos en tonos altos ...--- Man sollte tiefe Gefühle nicht in hohen Tönen darstellen ...

My heart is a mad admiral
Who quit his life at sea
And remembers it little by little
At home, pacing, pacing...

With this motion (the mere thought
Of which makes me shift in my seat)
The seas he once sailed still toss
In his muscles bored of inactivity.

Nostalgia's in his legs and arms.
Nostalgia pours out of his brain.
His boredom turns into raving.

But if, God's sake, the heart
Was my theme, why is this poem dealing
With an admiral instead of with feeling ?

Poems & News: Å være menneske er en sykdom. Helbredelse er umuli...

Poems & News: Å være menneske er en sykdom. Helbredelse er umuli...: Being human is a disease. Healing is impossible,  but all our endeavors consist in finding a painkiller ... Mensch sein ist eine K...

Å være menneske er en sykdom. Helbredelse er umulig, men all vår streben består i å finne et smertestillende middel...

Being human is a disease. Healing is impossible, 
but all our endeavors consist in finding a painkiller ...

Mensch sein ist eine Krankheit. 
Heilung ist unmöglich, 
   aber alle unsere Bemühungen bestehen darin, 
   ein Schmerzmittel zu finden ...

Être humain est une maladie. 
La guérison est impossible, 
   mais tous nos efforts consistent à trouver un 
   analgésique ...

Ser humano es una enfermedad. 
La curación es imposible, 
   pero todos nuestros esfuerzos consisten en encontrar 
   un analgésico ...

Poems & News: Det kommer aldri noe i en lukket hånd...-- Il ne s...

Poems & News: Det kommer aldri noe i en lukket hånd...-- Il ne s...: Well, I never went back. I no longer suffer from    not going back, to the old    days with poverty and hard    work. I, sovereign,...

Poems & News: Du som har de stille ord. Du som har en langsom sm...

Poems & News: Du som har de stille ord. Du som har en langsom sm...: Você que tem as palavras quietas. Você que tem uma dor lenta como um sono em sua honra, Você vê como uma estrela queima a floresta n...

Poems & News: The loneliness of the long-distance runner...

Poems & News: The loneliness of the long-distance runner...: I know nothing... Except the fact of my ignorance...

Poems & News: Ah ! ... : Old age has brought to me. Thy wisdom, ...

Poems & News: Ah ! ... : Old age has brought to me. Thy wisdom, ...: Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea...

Poems & News: Evigheten er tosidig... Består av alltid og aldri....

Poems & News: Evigheten er tosidig... Består av alltid og aldri....: Det vi ga, har vi... Det vi brukte, hadde vi... Det vi etterlot oss, mistet vi...

Poems & News: Tip me the black spot... Many's the long night I'v...

Poems & News: Tip me the black spot... Many's the long night I'v...: Room after room, I hunt We inhabit together Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find--- Next time --- not the trouble behind......

Poems & News: Alt har sin tid...

Poems & News: Alt har sin tid...: Alt har sin tid... Huset flyter ! Hermetikk, vindtøy, støvler på gulv og bord - termos, kompass og lomelykt - en kniv, to soveposer. ...

Poems & News: Etter de tunge, de mørkeste dager stiger jo morgen...

Poems & News: Etter de tunge, de mørkeste dager stiger jo morgen...:       Lekasje ? Som du Ingen kjente Galskapen uten bot Langt borte i sjelens øde Jotunheimen Vi ler som blindest når klokskapen...

Poems & News: Festen er over, rommet står grått og tomt, jentene...

Poems & News: Festen er over, rommet står grått og tomt, jentene...: As I take my shoes from the shoemaker,  and my coat from the tailor, so I take my religion from the priest. The best way to get the...

Poems & News: Jump, leap, take the bit between your teeth - Red-...

Poems & News: Jump, leap, take the bit between your teeth - Red-...: Yes, I am I, I myself, just what I turned out to be after all, A sort of accessory or leftover, The foggy suburbs of my sincere emotion, ...

Poems & News: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days ! co...

Poems & News: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days ! co...: I the roses love in the gardens of ... Cast your mind on other days That we in coming days may be... In dreams begins human... So let u...

Poems & News: Life is one long process of getting tiered...

Poems & News: Life is one long process of getting tiered...: I'd give anything if only my life were an donkey Squeaking down the road, early one morning And later resuming to where it started, T...

Poems & News: Der ewige Freide ist ein Traum, und nicht einmal e...

Poems & News: Der ewige Freide ist ein Traum, und nicht einmal e...: Everlasting peace is a dream,  and not even a pleasant one;  Say some... do they think ? Look at Africa... Very bad, how can be summar...

Poems & News: Hvorfor ? Por que ?

Poems & News: Hvorfor ? Por que ?: Hvorfor?                                                                          Por que? Hvorfor er verden så kald?            ...

Poems & News: Barefoot over the earth!

Poems & News: Barefoot over the earth!: Shavings curl on the beach Which berry-smells fill. A cottage grows up On Sintras hill In half-an-hour`s walk From the village My ...

Poems & News: It lives... If precious be the soul of man to man....

Poems & News: It lives... If precious be the soul of man to man....: I ask'd my fair, one happy day, what should I call  her in my lay, By what sweet name, from Rome to Greece... Ah, replied my ...

Poems & News: Because your heart are ice---But your hate a flame...

Poems & News: Because your heart are ice---But your hate a flame...: Because in your sad life Hope finds nothing left, All your kindness gone And your faith bereft. Because you worshipped the gods ...

Poems & News: Era mi voz antigua ignorante de los densos jugos a...

Poems & News: Era mi voz antigua ignorante de los densos jugos a...: ;Ay, voz antigua de mi amor, ay, voz de mi verdad, ay, voz de mi abierto costado, cuando todas las rosas manaban de mi lengua y el c...

Poems & News: Last Window...

Poems & News: Last Window...: In your frail loft (a fortress of shadows) before desire is trimmed, before the soundest sleep, stark and symmetrical, (without the...

Poems & News: By the living light...

Poems & News: By the living light...: Out in the sky, no one sleeps. No one, no one. No one sleeps. Lunar creatures sniff and circle the dwellings. Live iguanas will com...

Poems & News: It lives... If precious be the soul of man to man....

Poems & News: It lives... If precious be the soul of man to man....: I ask'd my fair, one happy day, what should I call  her in my lay, By what sweet name, from Rome to Greece... Ah, replied my ...

Poems & News: If I had your smile awaiting me...

Poems & News: If I had your smile awaiting me...: If I had your smile awaiting me, the train would recite, across the flat fields of Europe, the syllables of your name. If I had you...

Poems & News: Sometimes what ? ...We are just never enough...

Poems & News: Sometimes what ? ...We are just never enough...: With the rising sun. We see a painted sky Forever moving yet still As light becomes colour... You turn one side, Eyes open and ther...

Poems & News: The colour of life...

Poems & News: The colour of life...: The people you thought you know - don't you know they are nay-more ? Heart-breaking, isn't it. How close you've let them ...

Poems & News: Det er vondt å være for liten, men verre å verre f...

Poems & News: Det er vondt å være for liten, men verre å verre f...: There is no space wider    than that of grief, There is no universe like    that which bleeds... I am one of those who lives    in...

Poems & News: Du som har de stille ord. Du som har en langsom sm...

Poems & News: Du som har de stille ord. Du som har en langsom sm...: Você que tem as palavras quietas. Você que tem uma dor lenta como um sono em sua honra, Você vê como uma estrela queima a floresta n...

Poems & News: Well, who knows, who knows - Vel, hvem vet, hvem v...

Poems & News: Well, who knows, who knows - Vel, hvem vet, hvem v...: If once, way back, before me, I did not leave from such a dock, If I, a ship in the sun's slanting dawn light, Did not depart fro...

Poems & News: Han Karl "Bærhua" han datt i d... Nede hos ho Lind...

Poems & News: Han Karl "Bærhua" han datt i d... Nede hos ho Lind...: Jeg elsker å rime, men gjør det best hime. Når jeg er borte er det sjelden jeg får gjort det !

Poems & News: Å, elske så lenge du kan, å elske imens du elske m...

Poems & News: Å, elske så lenge du kan, å elske imens du elske m...: I, I myself... I, full of all the weariness The world can produce ... I ... Everything, finally,    since everything is me, Inclu...

Poems & News: Det vi ga, har vi... Det vi brukte, hadde vi... De...

Poems & News: Det vi ga, har vi... Det vi brukte, hadde vi... De...: What we gave, we have ...  What we used, we had ...  What we left, we lost ... Was wir gaben, wir haben ...  Was wir brauchten, ...

Det vi ga, har vi... Det vi brukte, hadde vi... Det vi etterlot oss, mistet vi...

What we gave, we have ... 
What we used, we had ... 
What we left, we lost ...

Was wir gaben, wir haben ... 
Was wir brauchten, wir hatten ... 
Was wir verließen, wir verloren ...

Lo que dimos, tenemos ... 
Lo que usamos, lo tuvimos ... 
Lo que dejamos, lo perdimos ...

Ce que nous avons donné, nous avons ... 
Ce que nous avons utilisé, nous avons eu ... 
Ce que nous avons laissé, nous avons perdu ...

Poems & News: "Akterutseilt i tankegangen" --- Hver si løst, sa ...

Poems & News: "Akterutseilt i tankegangen" --- Hver si løst, sa ...: I do not hunger for a well-stored mind, I only wish to live my life, and find My heart in unison with all mankind. Ich hungere nicht...

Poems & News: No one loves anyone else, he loves what he finds o...

Poems & News: No one loves anyone else, he loves what he finds o...: To be great, be whole: Don't exaggerate or leave  out any part of you. Be complete in each thing. Put all you are into the least...

Poems & News: Sometimes we smile - Sometimes we frown - Sometime...

Poems & News: Sometimes we smile - Sometimes we frown - Sometime...: The colour of light... I was once a star. I travelled anywhere My path not even a journey Just me, my own universe -  You and they...

Poems & News: If I had your smile awaiting me...

Poems & News: If I had your smile awaiting me...: If I had your smile awaiting me, the train would recite, across the flat fields of Europe, the syllables of your name. If I had you...

Poems & News: If each thing has its corresponding god, why shoul...

Poems & News: If each thing has its corresponding god, why shoul...: Poor children... Nothing of nothing remains, We're nothing. In the sun and air we put off briefly What we see, What we feel, ...

Poems & News: Vi tynges i støvet av syndenes skrud, men fuglen i...

Poems & News: Vi tynges i støvet av syndenes skrud, men fuglen i...: Vilt er livet... men vilvin er villere... For alle gode tanker de kan slett ikke dø... For ennå bedre tanker er spiret av deres frø... ...

Poems & News: Quien trabaja mas en la tierra el hombre o el sol ...

Poems & News: Quien trabaja mas en la tierra el hombre o el sol ...: Hvem arbeider mest på jorden mennesket eller kornets sol ? Hver vår er noen en smule mere og noen mindre enn hva de var. P...

Poems & News: La rosa no buscaba la rosa: inmóvil por el cielo, ...

Poems & News: La rosa no buscaba la rosa: inmóvil por el cielo, ...: Quasida of the Weeping. I have closed off my balcony, for I do not want to hear the weeping. But out there, beyond gray walls, nothing i...

La rosa no buscaba la rosa: inmóvil por el cielo, buscaba otra cosa. --- The rose was not looking for the rose: motionless in the sky, looking for something else.--- La rose ne cherchait pas la rose: immobile dans le ciel, à la recherche d'autre chose.---Die Rose suchte nicht nach der Rose: bewegungslos am Himmel, auf der Suche nach etwas anderem.---

Quasida of the Weeping.

I have closed off my balcony,
for I do not want to hear the weeping.
But out there, beyond gray walls,
nothing is heard but the weeping...

There are very few angels who sing.
There are very few dogs who bark.
A thousand violins fit in the palm of my hand.

But the weeping is an enormous dog,
the weeping is an enormous angel,
the weeping is an enormous violin,
tears have muzzled the wind,
and nothing is heard but the weeping
and the to days gun fight.

Del llanto

He cerrado mi balcón
porque no quiero oír el llanto,
pero por detrás de los grises muros
no se oye otra cosa que el llanto.

Hay muy pocos ángeles que canten,
hay muy pocos perros que ladren,
mil violines caben en la palma de mi mano.

Pero el llanto es un  perro inmenso,
el llanto es un violín inmenso,
las lagrimas amordazan al viento,
y no se oye otra cosa que el llanto.

Poems & News: If each thing has its corresponding god, why shoul...

Poems & News: If each thing has its corresponding god, why shoul...: Poor children... Nothing of nothing remains, We're nothing. In the sun and air we put off briefly What we see, What we feel, ...

Poems & News: En ti la tierra ... --- In you the earth... --- I...

Poems & News: En ti la tierra ... --- In you the earth... --- I...: Little Pink, Small rose Sometimes, Tiny and naked, It seems That in a hand of mine You go, That's how I'm going to clos...

En ti la tierra ... --- In you the earth... --- In dir die Erde ... --- En toi la terre ...

Little
Pink,
Small rose
Sometimes,
Tiny and naked,
It seems
That in a hand of mine
You go,
That's how I'm going to close you
And take you to my mouth,
But suddenly
My feet touch your feet and my mouth your lips;
You have grown,
Your shoulders rise like two hills,
Your breasts are walking on my chest,
My arm barely reaches to surround the thin
New moon line that has your waist:
In love like sea water you have unleashed:
I measure only the most extensive eyes of the sky
And I lean to your mouth to kiss the earth.

Poems & News: En ti la tierra ... In you the earth...

Poems & News: En ti la tierra ... In you the earth...: Pequeña rosa, rosa pequeña a veces, diminuta y desnuda, parece que en una mano mia cabes, que asi voy a cerrarte y llevarte a m...

Poems & News: La canción, que nunca dire, se ha dormido en mis l...

Poems & News: La canción, que nunca dire, se ha dormido en mis l...: There's not a Shakespeare sonnet Or a Beethoven quartet That's easier to like than you Or harder to forget. You think that ...

Poems & News: A good person is better than anything else ... ---...

Poems & News: A good person is better than anything else ... ---...: Time passes And tells us nothing. We grow old. Let us know how, With a certain mischief, To feel ourselves go... Let us pick f...

A good person is better than anything else ... --- Une bonne personne est meilleure que toute autre chose ... --- Ein guter Mensch ist besser als alles andere ...--- Una buena persona es mejor que cualquier otra cosa ... --- Et godt menneske er bedre enn alt annet ...

Time passes
And tells us nothing.
We grow old.
Let us know how,
With a certain mischief,
To feel ourselves go...

Let us pick flowers.
Let us lightly
Wet our hands
In the calm rivers,
So as to learn
Some of their calmness.

There are in our life
No sorrows or joys.
So let us learn,
Wisely unworried,
Not how to live life
But to let it go by...

Poems & News: De gode, så vel som de onde ord, ---snart er de sn...

Poems & News: De gode, så vel som de onde ord, ---snart er de sn...: I hear a guitar playing,            and laughter behind the            music. I pause In my  dreaming to look up: it's from     ...

De gode, så vel som de onde ord, ---snart er de sneen som falt i fjor... --- The good as well as evil word, --- soon it is the snow that fell last year ... --- Die gute als auch böse Wort, --- bald ist der Schnee, der im vergangenen Jahr fiel ... --- Le bien comme mot mal, --- est bientôt la neige qui est tombée l'année dernière ... --- La buena, así como la palabra mal, --- pronto es la nieve que cayó el año pasado ...

I hear a guitar playing,
           and laughter behind the
           music. I pause
In my  dreaming to look up: it's from
           The tall building---third floor.

So much joy in those young voices!
            It's false? How do I know?
Their pleasure makes me shiver with envy!
            It's banal? I have none.

They may be happy on the third floor
             Of that tall building. I pass by,
Dreaming of that home as if
              Dreaming of another country...
So what matters is that nothing matter
              Anymore... Whether Fate
Hangs over us...
              What good is thinking? 
I'm only a refugee wandering on this
              Earth...

  

Poems & News: En ti la tierra ... In you the earth...

Poems & News: En ti la tierra ... In you the earth...: Pequeña rosa, rosa pequeña a veces, diminuta y desnuda, parece que en una mano mia cabes, que asi voy a cerrarte y llevarte a m...

Poems & News: To my friend... The travler

Poems & News: To my friend... The travler: These stones aren't sad. Within them lives gold, they have the seeds of plants, they have bells in their depths, gloves of iron,...

Poems & News: Arrogance...

Poems & News: Arrogance...: The weight of arrogance is such that no bird can fly carrying it. And the man who feels superior (like our politicians);  That ma...

Poems & News: Takknemlighet er hjertes hukommelse... Selv om dag...

Poems & News: Takknemlighet er hjertes hukommelse... Selv om dag...: Song of Departing Year    Year, what a hard time I have letting you leave. You go off filled with me. You return and don't know...

Poems & News: For alle gode tanker de kan slett ikke dø, for enn...

Poems & News: For alle gode tanker de kan slett ikke dø, for enn...: From my town I see as much of the    Universe As can be seen from the    Earth. And so my town is as large as any    Town, For I&...

For alle gode tanker de kan slett ikke dø, for ennå bedre tanker er spiren av dennes frø...--- Für alle guten Gedanken können sie einfach nicht sterben, noch besser Gedanken sind die Saat seines Samens ... --- Pour toutes les bonnes pensées, ils ne peuvent pas mourir, car même de meilleures pensées sont la graine de sa semence ... --- For all the good thoughts they may simply not die, yet better thoughts are the seed of his seed ...

From my town
I see as much of the
   Universe
As can be seen from the
   Earth.
And so my town is as large as any
   Town,
For I'm the size of what I see
And not the size of my height...

Poems & News: Verst er den enetale, som et ensomt hjerte fører i...

Poems & News: Verst er den enetale, som et ensomt hjerte fører i...: Rule of keep quiet. Don't squander yourself,    Giving what you don't have. What good is the Caesar    you might have been...

Verst er den enetale, som et ensomt hjerte fører i et nesten hellig håp, om at noen hører... --- Worse is the monologue, as a lonely heart leads to an almost sacred hope that someone hears ... --- Am schlimmsten ist das Enetal, wie ein einsames Herz in einer fast heiligen Hoffnung führt, dass jemand hört ... ---Le pire est l'enetal, comme un coeur solitaire conduit dans un espoir presque sainte que quelqu'un entend ...

Rule of keep quiet.
Don't squander yourself,
   Giving what you don't have.
What good is the Caesar
   you might have been ?
Enjoy being the little you are.
The hovel you're given is a better shelter
   Than the palace you're owed...

Poems & News: De gode, så vel som de onde ord, --- Snart er de s...

Poems & News: De gode, så vel som de onde ord, --- Snart er de s...: If sometimes I say that flowers smile And if I should say that rivers sing, It's not because I think there are smiles in flowers ...

De gode, så vel som de onde ord, --- Snart er de sneen som falt i fjor. --- The good as well as the evil words, --- Soon they are the falling snow from last year. --- Die gute als auch böse Wort, --- Bald wird der Schnee, der im vergangenen Jahr fiel. --- Le bon mot aussi bien que mal, --- Bientôt la neige qui est tombée l'année dernière. --- La buena, así como la palabra mal, --- Pronto la nieve que cayó el año pasado.

If sometimes I say that flowers smile
And if I should say that rivers sing,
It's not because I think there are smiles in flowers
And songs in the rivers' flowing---
It's so I can help misguided people's 
Feel the truly real existence of flowers and rivers.

Since I write for them to read me, 
I sometimes stoop
To the stupidity of their senses---
It isn't right, but I excuse myself,
Because I've only taken on this odious role,
An interpreter of Nature,
Because there are people who don't grasp
   its language,
Which is no language at all.

Poems & News: Å løfte sitt blikk til stjernene, det er den beste...

Poems & News: Å løfte sitt blikk til stjernene, det er den beste...: Det går en stor vilje gjennom verden Det tvinger ørknen til å blomstre Den holder mennesker oppreist i motvind Den gir mat til all v...

Poems & News: You can see them from the rallings on the mount, t...

Poems & News: You can see them from the rallings on the mount, t...: Gateway to everything ! Bridge to everything ! Road to everything ! Your omnivorous soul... Your soul that's bird, fish, bea...

Poems & News: En el blanco infinito. ;que pura y larga herida de...

Poems & News: En el blanco infinito. ;que pura y larga herida de...: The fleeting track made by     the vanished foot in the soft     grass, the echo that hollowly rolls,     the shadow that grows black...

Poems & News: You can see them from the rallings on the mount, t...

Poems & News: You can see them from the rallings on the mount, t...: Gateway to everything ! Bridge to everything ! Road to everything ! Your omnivorous soul... Your soul that's bird, fish, bea...

Poems & News: En el blanco infinito, nieve, nardo y salina, perd...

Poems & News: En el blanco infinito, nieve, nardo y salina, perd...: How many enjoy the enjoyment of enjoying Without enjoying their enjoyment, and divide it     Between themselves and others     Takin...

Poems & News: Christ, a mirror in each hand. He multiplies his s...

Poems & News: Christ, a mirror in each hand. He multiplies his s...: Riddle of the Guitar At the round cross-way six maidens dance. Three of flesh and three of silver. Dreams of yesterday seek the...

Poems & News: Takknemlighet er hjertes hukommelse... Selv om dag...

Poems & News: Takknemlighet er hjertes hukommelse... Selv om dag...: Song of Departing Year    Year, what a hard time I have letting you leave. You go off filled with me. You return and don't know...

Poems & News: Glass Wall ...

Poems & News: Glass Wall ...: Have you ever looked through glass ? You see straight through it. But you don't know what's inside. I see you on the other si...

Poems & News: If each thing has its corresponding god, why shoul...

Poems & News: If each thing has its corresponding god, why shoul...: Poor children... Nothing of nothing remains, We're nothing. In the sun and air we put off briefly What we see, What we feel, ...

Poems & News: Hills of the North, rejoice; Rivers and mountain-s...

Poems & News: Hills of the North, rejoice; Rivers and mountain-s...: In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way,- I have to go to bed by day. I have to ...

Poems & News: Som du tier i skogen, får du svar...

Poems & News: Som du tier i skogen, får du svar...: With serving still This have I won: For my good will To be undone. And for redress Of all my pain Disdainfulness I have again Se...