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THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERARTURE 2020

THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERARTURE 2020
"for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal"

THE NIGHT MIGRATIONS

This is the moment when you see again
the red berries of the mountain ash
and in the dark sky
the birds' night migrations.

It grieves me to think
the dead won't see them---
these things we depend on,
they disappear.

What will the soul do for solace then?
I tell myself maybe it won't need
these pleasures anymore;
maybe just not being is simply enough,
hard as that is to imagine.

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"pela sua inconfundível voz poética que com austera beleza dá dimensão universal à existência individual"

AS MIGRAÇÕES NOCTURNAS

Este é o momento de reveres
as bagas vermelhas do freixo de montanha
e no céu escuro
as migrações nocturnas dos pássaros.

Entristece-me pensar
que os mortos não mais as verão---
essas coisas de que dependemos,
desaparecem.

O que é que a alma faz para se consolar?
Digo para mim que jamais necessitará
destes prazeres;
talvez não existir seja suficientemente fácil,
mas é difícil de imaginar.

by Louise GLÜCK (USA), in "AVERNO", published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006

(Portuguese translated by Armando TABORDA, 2020

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 Armando Taborda
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In 2013 you guessed she would be a Nobel's winner!
3 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
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:)
3 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
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Je te remercie le fave, Anna Locilue Mélia!
3 years ago.

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