quinta-feira, 30 de novembro de 2023
terça-feira, 28 de novembro de 2023
"Me sentí como un caballo de carreras en un mundo sin hipódromos, o como un campeón de fútbol universitario plantando cara de pronto a Wall Street y un traje de ejecutivo, viendo sus días de gloria reducidos a una pequeña cosa de oro sobre la repisa, con una fecha grabada como la fecha en una lápida.
segunda-feira, 27 de novembro de 2023
domingo, 26 de novembro de 2023
sábado, 25 de novembro de 2023
Rumo a Bizâncio
Aquela não é terra para velhos.
Gente jovem, de braços dados, pássaros nas ramas
— gerações de mortais — cantando alegremente,
salmão no salto, atum no mar, brilho de escamas,
peixe, ave ou carne glorificam ao sol quente
tudo o que nasce e morre, sêmen ou semente.
Ao som da música sensual, o mundo esquece
as obras do intelecto que nunca envelhece.
Um homem velho é apenas uma ninharia,
trapos numa bengala à espera do final,
a menos que a alma aplauda, cante e ainda ria
sobre os farrapos do seu hábito mortal;
nem há escola de canto, ali, que não estude
monumentos de sua própria magnitude.
Por isso eu vim, vencendo as ondas e a distância,
em busca da cidade santa de Bizâncio.
Ó sábios, junto a Deus, sob o fogo sagrado,
como se num mosaico de ouro a resplender,
vinde do fogo santo, em giro espiralado,
e vos tornai mestres-cantores do meu ser .
Rompei meu coração, que a febre faz doente
e, acorrentado a um mísero animal morrente,
já não sabe o que é; arrancai-me da idade
para o lavor sem fim da longa eternidade.
Livre da natureza não hei de assumir
conformação de coisa alguma natural,
mas a que o ourives grego soube urdir
de ouro forjado e esmalte de ouro em tramas,
para acordar do ócio o sono imperial;
ou cantarei aos nobres de Bizâncio e às damas,
pousado em ramo de ouro, como um pássa-
ro, o que passou e passará e sempre passa.
Yeats
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.
~Louise Erdrich
sexta-feira, 24 de novembro de 2023
quinta-feira, 23 de novembro de 2023
segunda-feira, 20 de novembro de 2023
"It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for the adventure of being alive. It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon... I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain mine or your own without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy mine or your own. if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful to be realistic to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes.” It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments. Oriah Mountain Dreamer - The invitation