Speak, You Too | Paul Celan, 1920-70
Paul Celan . Speak, you too, speak as the last one, have your say. Speak -- But do not separate...
Poems
Always For The First Time | André Breton, 1934
Always for the first time I scarcely know you when I see you You return sometime in the night To...
Moon | A poem by Otagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875)
Donato Creti, Astronomical observations, The moon, 1711 . "My heart cannot embrace the fullness of the world yet I find myself gazing...
Days [ ) Lull | John Keats, 1818
Ingrid Bergman gathering poppies, Orléans, France . "Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul." John...
Voyage of Discovery | A poem by Benjamin Peret, 1928
Adolf Hoffmeister, Benjamin Peret, 1964 . He was alone in the depths of alone-alone A loner to her loner he...
Between Going and Staying | Octavio Paz, 1914 – 1998
Octavio Paz, Mexico, 1938 . Between going and staying the day wavers, in love with its own transparency. The circular...
Come Close | Sappho, 630 – 570 BC
Paul Caponigro - Eleanor’s Hands, Winthrop, Massachusetts, 1965 . “You will have memories Because of what we did back then...
In that great river | A poem by Anna Kamienska, 1920-1986
- "The sense of loneliness is an error. We are and move in a great crowd of those who are...
I Carry Your Heart With me (I Carry it in My Heart) | A poem by e.e. cummings, 1952
A couple walk down a tree-lined avenue, Virginia, 1958 . i carry your heart with me (i carry it in...
A Birthday | A poem by Christina Rossetti, 1861
unknown . My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like...