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Στο σώμα, στην ενθύμηση πονούμε.
Μας διώχνουνε τα πράγματα, κι η ποίησις
είναι το καταφύγιο που φθονούμε.

Κ. Γ. Καρυωτάκης, [Είμαστε κάτι...], Ελεγεία: δεύτερη σειρά, 1927.

Δευτέρα 11 Φεβρουαρίου 2013

Ο δρόμος

R. Frost (1874-1963), φωτογραφία
της δεκαετίας 1910-1920.
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.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”, Mountain Interval, Νέα Υόρκη, 1920.