CURRENT MOON

Sunday, June 03, 2007

Sunday Akhmatova Blogging


"You, Who Were Born..."
1956

You, who were born for poetry’s creation,
Do not repeat the sayings of the ancients.
Though, maybe, our Poetry, itself,
Is just a single beautiful citation.


Translated by Yevgeny Bonver, July, 2002
Edited by Tatiana Piotroff, September, 2002
Edited by Hecate, 2007

I love Akhmatova's exortation to write original poetry, rather than to continue to recycle the themes and techinques already created.

No comments: