Showing posts with label Juan Ramon Jimenez. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Juan Ramon Jimenez. Show all posts

Sunday, May 24, 2020

I am not I







I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and whom at other times I forget;
who remains calm and silent while I talk,
and forgives, gently, when I hate,
who walks where I am not,
who will remain standing when I die.






~ Juan Ramon Jimenez
translated by Robert Bly



Sunday, October 7, 2018

I am not I





I am not I.

I am this one
Walking beside me whom I do not see,
Whom at times I manage to visit,
And at other times I forget.

The one who remains silent when I talk,
The one who forgives, sweet, when I hate,
The one who takes a walk when I am indoors,
The one who will remain standing when I die.







~ Juana Ramon Jimenez
translated by Robert Bly



Monday, May 2, 2011

I was thinking






Who knows what is going on on the other side of each hour?

How many times the sunrise was
there, behind a mountain!

How many times the brilliant cloud piling up far off
was already a golden body full of thunder!

This rose was poison.

That sword gave life.

I was thinking of a flowery meadow
at the end of a road,
and found myself in the slough.

I was thinking of the greatness of what was human,
and found myself in the divine.





~ Juan Ramon Jimenez
from The Winged Energy of Delight
translated by Robert Bly





Tuesday, February 15, 2011

unpetalled






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I unpetalled you, like a rose,
to see your soul,
and I didn't see it.
.
But everything around
--horizons of lands and of seas--
everything, out to the infinite,
was filled with a fragrance,
enormous and alive.


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~ Juan Ramon Jimenez
translated by Stephen Mitchell

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