The road not taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.


(Robert Frost)

Macbeth V, v, 19

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

(Shakespeare, Macbeth V, v, 19)

Limites ao léu

POESIA: "words set to music" (Dante
via Pound), "uma viagem ao
desconhecido" (Maiakovski), "cernes e
medulas" (Ezra Pound), "a fala do
infalível" (Goethe), "linguagem
voltada para a sua propria
materialidade" (Jakobson),
"permanente hesitação entre som
e sentido" (Paul Valery), "fundação do
ser mediante a palavra" (Heidegger),
"a religião original da humanidade"
(Novalis), "as melhores palavras na
melhor ordem" (Coleridge), "emoção
relembrada na tranquilidade"
(Wordsworth), "ciência e paixão"
(Alfred de Vigny), "se faz com
palavras, não com idéias"
(Ricardo Reis/Fernando Pessoa), "um
fingimento deveras" (Fernando
Pessoa), "criticism of life" (Mattew
Arnold), "palavra-coisa" (Sartre),
"linguagem em estado de pureza
selvagem" (Octavio Paz), "poetry is to
inspire" (Bob Dylan), "design de
linguagem" (Decio Pignatari), "lo
imposible hecho posible" (Garcia
Lorca), "aquilo que se perde na
tradução" (Robert Frost), "a liberdade
da minha linguagem" (Paulo
Leminski)...

(Paulo Leminski)