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Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Terry Pratchett - A Hat Full Of Sky (via terrypratchettparadise)

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Poetry prompts

Jorge Luis Borges

1. “Glory is among the guises of oblivion.” (”Ariosto y los árabes”, trans. Eric McHenry) 2. “Returning to ancient dreams, dreaming them anew.” (ibid.) 3. “Something like a clock glimpsed in a dream” (“Una brújula”, trans. Alastair Reid) 4. “I have committed the worst sin of all” (”El remordimiento”, trans. Willis Barnstone) 5. “They willed me bravery. I wasn’t brave.” (ibid.) 6. “The silent time inside the looking-glass” (”El espejo”, trans. Hoyt Rogers) 7. “A dim shadow in dim history” (”El golem”, trans. John Hollander) 8. “Inaction is wisdom. I left off being wise.” (ibid.) 9. “The sword which was a sword once in another grasp” (”Tankas”, trans. Alastair Reid) 10. “And no longer to be part of man, of dream, of morning.” (ibid.) 11. “Now liberated from hope and from fear” (”Una llave en Salónica”, trans. me) 12. “Tired radiance and quiet suffering” (ibid.) 13. “Received by a hand in heaven” (ibid.) 14. “Somewhere in that library of the past” (”Los lectores”, trans. Alastair Reid)

Paul Celan (all trans. Michael Hamburger)

15. “So there are temples yet.” (”Die Engführung”) 16. “Nothing is lost.” (ibid.) 17. “We put a silence over it, stilled with poison” (ibid.) 18. “He wears it much as one wears the dead on one’s hands.” (”Chanson einer Dame im Schatten”) 19. “The rose of strange places” (”Die letzte Fahne”) 20. “If I were like you. If you were like me.” (”Sprachgitter”) 21. “Pray, Lord, pray to us, we are near.” (”Tenebrae”) 22. “Wax to seal the unwritten” (”Mit Brief und Uhr”) 23. “Set your flag at half-mast, memory.” (”Schibboleth”)

Philip Larkin

24. “Till then I see what’s really always there” (”Aubade”) 25. “Nothing more terrible, nothing more true.” (ibid.) 26. “That vast moth-eaten musical brocade created to pretend we never die” (ibid.) 27. “Most things may never happen: this one will” (ibid.) 28. “And what remains when disbelief has gone?” (”Church Going”) 29. “A serious house on serious earth it is” (ibid.) 30. “And that much never can be obsolete” (ibid.)

Kiki Dimoula (all trans. me)

31. “Let me ask the prophetess Memory” (”Αναερείπωση”) 32. “Foreign languages flow into the little glasses of our own” (ibid.) 33. “Holding the amphoras of mystery” (”Γεγονότα”) 34. “Leaving the sunset half-finished” (ibid.) 35. “Say something, anything. Just don’t stand there like a steel absence.” (“Η περιφραστική πέτρα”) 36. “I have walked much in feelings, my own and others’.” (”Πέρασα”) 37. “The only trustworthy witness to our having lived is our absence.” (”Υποκατάστατο”)

Odysseas Elytis (all trans. Jeffrey Carson and Nikos Sarris)

38. “He who I truly was He many aeons ago” (”Το ‘Αξιον Εστί”) 39. “Each with his own weapons” (ibid.) 40. “And monsters took on a human face” (ibid.) 41. “It takes guts to endure peace” (ibid.) 42. “The blood of somebody killed returning to the upper world” (ibid.) 43. “Of what nonexistent race was I the descendant” (ibid.) 44. “I added up my days and did not find you” (ibid.) 45. “And then behold, the sunbeam became the thread of Death!” (ibid.) 46. “And from the wells you draw cries of the unjustly killed” (ibid.) 47. “I did not consent to supplication” (ibid.) 48. “Come now, so what if you’re not liked” (”Τρία ποιήματα με σημαία ευκαιρίας”) 49. “Even if you have it all, something’s always lacking” (ibid.) 50. “With a memory all fragmented but inclined to miracles” (ibid.)

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love at first s(word f)ight

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