sábado, 18 de novembro de 2017

ROBERT BLY

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Robert Bly é americano, poeta e ensaísta, formado na Universidade de Iowa. Escreve coisas inesperadas como o poema transcrito no fim do post, que termina assim: [...]

[...] A má caligrafia às vezes leva a novas ideias;
E um Deus descuidado — que recusa deixar-te
Comer da Árvore da Sabedoria — pode levar
Aos livros, eventualmente a nós. Escrevemos
Poemas com mentiras, mas eles ajudam alguma coisa
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A man told me once that all the bad people
Were needed. Maybe not all, but your fingernails
You need; they are really claws, and we know
Claws. The sharks--what about them?
They make other fish swim faster. The hard-faced men
In black coats who chase you for hours
In dreams--that's the only way to get you
To the shore. Sometimes those hard women
Who abandon you get you to say, "You."
A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed.
It doesn't move on its own. It takes sometimes
A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.
Then they blow across three or four States.
This man told me that things work together.
Bad handwriting sometimes leads to new ideas;
And a careless God--who refuses to let you
Eat from the Tree of Knowledge--can lead
To books, and eventually to us. We write
Poems with lies in them, but they help a little.

.Robert Bly

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