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WALT WHITMAN VĂ PREVINE de Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Către State sau către oricare dintre ele sau către orice oraş din State:
Rezistaţi cât mai mult, supuneţi-vă cât mai puţin;
Cine acceptă supunerea fără să-ntrebe va fi cu desăvârşire robit,
Odată cu desăvârşire robită, nici o Naţiune, nici un Stat sau oraş de pe pământ
Nu-şi mai redobândeşte, în veci, libertatea.
(traducere de Margareta Sterian, vol. „Aud cântând America”, Ed. Dacia, 1973)
A PACT by EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman –
I have detested you long enough.
I come to you as a grown child
Who has had a pig-headed father;
I am old enough now to make friends.
It was you that broke the new wood,
Now is a time for carving.
We have one sap and one root –
Let there be commerce between us.
(The Penguin Book of American Verse, Edited by Geoffrey Moore, Penguin Books, 1977)
Gershwin by himself – Video de deandusk
„i thank You God for most this amazing” by E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes//
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)//
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any – lifted from the no
of all nothing – human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?//
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
(ibidem)