¿Qué seríamos sin el mito sexual,
la ensoñación humana o el poema de la muerte?
Castratos de infatuaciones lunares –la vida consiste
de proposiciones sobre la vida. La humana
ensoñación es una soledad en la que
componemos estas proposiciones, desgarradas por los sueños,
por las terribles maldiciones de las derrotas
y por el temor de que las derrotas y los sueños sean uno.
Toda la raza es un poeta que escribe
las excéntricas proposiciones de su destino.
Wallace Stevens, Reading, 1879 - Hartford, 1955
versión ©Silvia Camerotto
Men Made Out of
Words
What should we be without
the sexual myth,
The human reverie or poem of death?
Castratos of moon-mash—Life consists
Of propositions about life. The human
Reverie is a solitude in which
We compose these propositions, torn by dreams,
By the terrible incantations of defeats
And by the fear that defeats and dreams are one.
The whole race is a poet that writes down
The eccentric propositions of its fate.
The human reverie or poem of death?
Castratos of moon-mash—Life consists
Of propositions about life. The human
Reverie is a solitude in which
We compose these propositions, torn by dreams,
By the terrible incantations of defeats
And by the fear that defeats and dreams are one.
The whole race is a poet that writes down
The eccentric propositions of its fate.
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