Boa noite!

Uma escolha da Maria:

Bacio - 52

«We were together. I forgot the rest.»

 Walt Whitman

Agradeço a quem me enviou o marcador e a quem me ofereceu a caixa de baci de onde saiu esta citação.

Boa noite!

Walt Whitman nasceu há 200 anos.

Poemas - 48

No dia em que passam 192 anos sobre o nascimento de Walt Whitman.

Poemas - 35

Um dos mais famosos de Walt Whitman, escrito em memória do assassinado Presidente Lincoln.

Para quem anda a viajar

now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find

Do poema The Untold Want de Walt Whitman.

Leaves of Grass

"A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;

How could I answer the Child?... I do not Know what it is any more than he".

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Mineola, [NY]: Dover Publications Inc., 2007, p.24

LEAVES OF GRASS

To think of time...to think through the retrospection,
To think today...and the ages continued henceforward.
Have you guessed you yourself would not continue? Have you
dreaded those earth-beetles?
Have you feared the future would be nothing to you?

Is today nothing? Is the beginingless past nothing?
If the future is nothing they are just as surely nothing.

(...)

Walt Whithman, Leaves of Grass, New York: Dover Publications, 2007, p.78

Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata no. 46 in E major, Hob XVI:31, piano - Vadim Chaimovich.

Poem of The Poet in Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman.

Hoje faz 190 anos que nasceu Walt Whitman. O seu livro mais famoso foi Leaves of Grass

Poem of The Poet.

A YOUNG man came to me with a message

from his brother,

How should the young man know the whether and

when of his brother? Tell him to send me the signs.

And I stood before the young man face to face,

and took his right hand in my left hand, and

his left hand in my right hand,

And I answered for his brother, and for men, and

I answered for the poet, and sent these signs.

Him all wait for, him all yield up to, his word is

decisive and final,

Him they accept, in him lave, in him perceive

themselves, as amid light,

Him they immerse, and he immerses them.

Beautiful women, the haughtiest nations, laws, the

landscape, people, animals,

The profound earth and its attributes, and the un- quiet ocean,

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Leaves of Grass, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library

Pleno de Vida Agora, Walt Whitman!

Walt Whitman, poeta americano

PLENO DE VIDA AGORA

Pleno de vida agora, concreto, viável,

Eu, aos quarenta anos de idade e aos oitenta e três dos Estados Unidos,

A ti que viverás dentro de um século ou vários séculos mais,

A ti, que ainda não nasceste, me dirijo, procurando-te.

Quando leres isto, eu que era visível, serei invisível,

Agora és tu, concreto, visível, aquele que me lê, aquele que me procura.

Imagino como serias feliz se eu estivesse a teu lado e fosse teu companheiro,

Sê tão feliz como se eu estivesse contigo. (Não penses que não estou agora junto a ti).

Walt Whitman, Folhas de Erva (selecção de José Agostinho Baptista), Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2009, Poemário de 2009 - 30 de Maio.