Cento sonetti d'amore. Testo spagnolo a fronte

When I got tired of copying love poems from the Chinese and Japanese into urgent, wretched note cards to lovers who were unattainable (and I'm a genius at finding unattainable characters to pine after)... that's when I turned to Pablo Neruda. He's even better than Asian poets at crafting throbbing,

I really sometimes wonder if I love right, love correctly, or if I love at all and am not just miming what I think, what I want, I feel. For me I love all at once, I fall very fast, but rarely. I will go long loveless periods through life, happy and unthinking of what passions I am missing, unenviou Leggi tutto

My comment would be: 'written on the wings of butterflies.' "I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if ever Leggi tutto

It was one of those days. The kids flooded the bathroom, the cat vomited on my carpet, a toothbrush got lodged down the drain. One of those days. It was not a day to start a Sarah Vowell book about the beginnings of Hawaii… No, not today. Today, I grabbed the bottle of Sangria and sat down with this Leggi tutto

This is my favorite poet. The poems are beautifull. I recommend this book very highly.

''Γεμάτη θλίψη αγνή αγροικά η στέγη βροχές πανάρχαιες ξέφυλλες να πέφτουν, φτερά κι ό,τι έχει η νύχτα φυλακίσει: κι έτσι σε καρτερώ σαν έρμο σπίτι να γυρίσεις και να με κατοικήσεις. Αλλιώς τα παραθύρια με πονάνε''. Leggi tutto

Σ' αγαπώ καθώς κάποιο φυτό που δεν ανθίζει,μα που μέσα του κρύβει το λουλουδόφως όλο,και ζει απ' τον έρωτα σου σκοτεινό στο κορμί μουτ' άρωμα που σφιγμένο μ' ανέβηκε απ' το χώμα.Σ' αγαπώ μη γνωρίζοντας πως, από που και πότε,σ' αγαπώ στα ίσια δίχως πρόβλημα ή περηφάνια :σ' αγαπώ έτσι γιατί δεν ξέρω Leggi tutto