Angèle Marie Lowi

3 Responses to "Wit & Wisdom"

1. Jason says:

   August 15, 2015 at 5:46 pm

   i carry your heart with me

   i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
   my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
   i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
   by only me is your doing,my darling)
   i fear
   no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
   no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
   and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
   and whatever a sun will always sing is you

   here is the deepest secret nobody knows
   (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
   and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
   higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
   and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

   i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

   Source: Poetry (June 1952). “i carry your heart with me” by E.E. Cummings, from Complete Poems 1904-62. © Liveright Publishing, 1994.

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2. Anna says:

   August 15, 2015 at 5:47 pm

   Mom loved Charles Baudelaire’s Les fleurs du mal….

   129 –> La Fin de la Journée

   Sous une lumière blafarde
   Court, danse et se tord sans raison
   La Vie, impudente et criarde.
   Aussi, sitôt qu’à l’horizon

   La nuit voluptueuse monte,
   Apaisant tout, même la faim,
   Effaçant tout, même la honte,
   Le Poète se dit: ‘Enfin!

   Mon esprit, comme mes vertèbres,
   Invoque ardemment le repos;
   Le coeur plein de songes funèbres,

   Je vais me coucher sur le dos,
   Et me rouler dans vox rideaux,
   O rafraîchissantes ténèbres!‘

   129 –> Day’s End

   Mindless of the fading light,
   Life – insolent, noisy Life
   squanders itself until night
   voluptuously reaches for

   the horizon, consoling all –
   even hunger, concealing all –
   even shame, and then the Poet
   murmurs to himself: ‘At last!

   Spine and spirit crave their rest
   with one accord; my heart brims
   over with dreams of dying –

   I shall lie down, I shall sleep,
   Shroud me in your panoply,
   O replenishing darkness!’

   *English translation by Richard Howard; David R. Godine, publisher

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3. Jason Lowi says:

   August 19, 2015 at 12:18 am

   “‘On me your voice falls as they say love should, Like an enormous yes”
   -Philip Larkin

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