Showing posts with label On writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label On writing. Show all posts

Saturday, February 13, 2010

#247

(image by Rach-May)

Certezas parecem não dormir nunca
- pelo menos não em camas de poetas
como nós.
Ausência e dúvida
são as coisas que tiram o sono,
são os fermentos da poesia.

Certainties seem never to sleep
- at least not in bed like ours,
poets' beds.
Absence and doubt
are things that prevent people from sleeping,
they are baking powder for poems
cooking poets are always making.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

#217


(image by Blackybeth)


Acontece que
nem sempre há idéias brilhantes.
Às vezes elas são
só idéias.
O brilho nos olhos dos outros
é que as torna grandes.

What happens is that
there aren't always brilliant ideas.
Sometimes they are just
regular ideas.
The glow in people's eyes
is what makes them bigger and better.