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Pieter Posted 23 years ago

Ars Poetica ( of a genious)

Ars poetica
( Attila Jozsef)


“ I am a poet- why would poetry
itself interest me , why?
I wouldn’t be nice if the night sea’s
star rose up to the black sky.
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Eat, drink, love, sleep, do everything!
Measure yourself to the universe!
I’ll not serve, not even hissing,
Vile, mean powers on this Earth.

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I say: Man is still not grown up. That’s
what he believes, so he is wild.
Let him be watched by two angels,
By two parents: spirit and love.”
  

Top answer

Be free to eat, drink, make love and sleep! Weigh yourself with the universe! I shan't hiss my inward curse to creep and serve the base bone-crushing powers.

— Pieter

  • Be free to eat, drink, make love and sleep!
  • Weigh yourself with the universe!
  • I shan't hiss my inward curse to creep and serve the base bone-crushing powers.
  • (from 'Ars Poetica', 1937, trans.
  • by Michael Beevor)
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Be free to eat, drink, make love and sleep!
Weigh yourself with the universe!
I shan't hiss my inward curse to creep
and serve the base bone-crushing powers.
(from 'Ars Poetica', 1937, trans. by Michael Beevor)
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Mine is betttterrrr!!! Mucho, mucho muy buneo.Emotion: smile
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Lol, Peter, can we have yours? By the way, can you tell me why I am so stuck with your poems?
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'cos they're great.
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You know, Picasso was a genius painter but a monster as a person as some of his living relatives have lately explained. What do you think about this? eh
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F...ck the relatives.
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Lol, haha. What kind of monster are you Peter?
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