Posts Tagged 'italian'

by Sandro Penna

Published January 24, 2008 Poetry & Poets 0 Comments
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The insomnia of swallows. The quiet
Friend come to greet me
                                              at the station
 
L’insonnia delle rondini. L’amico
Quieto a salutarmi alla stazione.

Sandro Penna, translated by Alexander Booth

Contrasting Views

"Literalism is a feature of boorish translators." Cicero "The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase." Nabokov

Introspectivist Manifesto, 1920

"In an introspective manner means that the poet must really listen to his inner voice, observe his internal panorama--kaleidescopic, contradictory, unclear or confused as it may be."

Sigmund Freud

"Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me."

 

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