SAD WARS Sad wars if love is not the aim. Sad, sad. Sad weapons if they are not words. Sad, sad. Sad men if they did not die for love. Sad, sad. Miguel Hernández English translation by Ted Genoways |
Man Ray, A l’heure de l’observatoire, les amoureux (Observatory Time: The Lovers), 1934. Courtesy of Centre Pompidou, Paris. |
IT DID NOT WANT TO BE It did not recognise the meeting of the he and she. The blossom so enamoured could not become flowery. It stopped its senses, refused discovery, descended diaphanous before light’s clarity. It saw tomorrow’s cloudiness, stayed, in yesterday’s history. It did not want to be. Miguel Hernández English translation by Anthony S. Kline |
SAD WARS Sad wars if love is not the aim. Sad, sad. Sad weapons if they are not words. Sad, sad. Sad men if they did not die for love. Sad, sad. Miguel Hernández English translation by Ted Genoways |
Take me, take me. Leave me, leave me. Wild beasts, men, shadows, suns, flowers, seas. Take me. Leave me. Miguel Hernández English translation by Michael Smith |
Cinderella’s shoe is being transformed into the Holy Graal. Photo © Natasha Pszenicki. |
TRISTES GUERRAS
Tristes guerras si no es amor la empresa. Tristes, tristes. Tristes armas si no son las palabras. Tristes, tristes. Tristes hombres si no mueren de amores. Tristes, tristes. SAD WARS Sad wars if love is not the aim. Sad, sad. Sad weapons if they are not words. Sad, sad. Sad men if they did not die for love. Sad, sad. |
I’ll write on your fan:
I love you so as to forget you, I forget you so as to love you. |
Love is imagining, always;
It invents the year, the day, The hour, the song of the hour; It invents the lover and even Invents the beloved. Nothing is proved Against love for the beloved’s Never having existed. |
One lies more than can be counted for lack of imagination.
Truth also is invented. |
