MARIANNE
MOORE
Poetry
Poesia
Eu,
também, detesto isso: existem coisas importantes além
destas
ninharias.
Lendo
isto, no entanto, com total desprezo, se
descobre
nisto
afinal,
um lugar para ser genuíno.
Mãos
que podem segurar, olhos
que
podem dilatar, cabelos que se arrepiam
se
precisam, tais coisas são importantes não porque uma
altissonante
interpretação pode ser colocada porém
porque
elas são
úteis.
Quando elas chegam tão derivadas quanto
inteligíveis,
a
mesma coisa deve ser dita para nós todos, que não
nos
admiramos que
não
podemos entender: um morcego
suspenso
de cabeça-pra-baixo ou em busca de algo
para
comer, elefantes se empurrando, um corcel a galope,
um
incansável lobo sob
uma
árvore, imóvel enquanto sua pele estremece tal
um
cavalo a perceber uma mosca,
o
fã de baseball, o estatístico --
nem
sequer é válido
erguer
protesto contra “negócios burocracias e
livros
didáticos”; são todos fenômenos importantes.
Deve-se
fazer uma distinção, entretanto:
quando
dragada na proeminência de meio-poetas, o
resultado
não é a poesia,
não
até que os poetas entre nós possam ser
“literatos
da
imaginação”
-- acima da
insolência
e da trivialidade possam apresentar
para
inspeção, “jardins imaginários com sapos de verdade”,
é
o que devemos ter. Enquanto isso, se vocês
pedem
numa mão,
a
matéria-prima da poesia em
toda
a sua primitividade, e
na
outra mão conserva o
genuíno,
realmente estão interessados
em
poesia.
Marianne
Moore
Trad.
livre by Leonardo de Magalhaens
Poetry
I,
too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all
this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
if it must, these things are important not because a
high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because
they are
useful. When they become so derivative as to become
unintelligible,
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we
do not admire what
we cannot understand: the bat
holding on upside down or in quest of something to
eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless wolf
under
a tree, the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that
feels a
flea, the base-
ball fan, the statistician--
nor is it valid
to discriminate against 'business documents and
school-books'; all these phenomena are important. One must
make a distinction
however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the
result is not poetry,
nor till the poets among us can be
'literalists of
the imagination'--above
insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, 'imaginary gardens with real toads in them', shall
we have
it. In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand,
the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry.
this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
if it must, these things are important not because a
high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because
they are
useful. When they become so derivative as to become
unintelligible,
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we
do not admire what
we cannot understand: the bat
holding on upside down or in quest of something to
eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless wolf
under
a tree, the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse that
feels a
flea, the base-
ball fan, the statistician--
nor is it valid
to discriminate against 'business documents and
school-books'; all these phenomena are important. One must
make a distinction
however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the
result is not poetry,
nor till the poets among us can be
'literalists of
the imagination'--above
insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, 'imaginary gardens with real toads in them', shall
we have
it. In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand,
the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry.
Marianne Moore Poetry
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