Love, etc.
Remember Elizabeth Bishop’s “Casabianca?” “Love’s the boy stood on the burning deck / trying to recite ‘The boy stood on / the burning deck’…” Read the rest of the poem, and many others, including one by Louise Bogan that is seen as offering the argument that “two people are never really, completely divorced, just as two people are never really, completely married”–all in an essay by Robert Pinsky.
You can find Bertolt Brecht’s love-poems by following a link at wood s lot. Here’s one, translated by J. Beilharz, that I liked:
I want to go with the one I love
I want to go with the one I love.
I do not want to calculate the cost.
I do not want to think about whether it’s good.
I do not want to know whether he loves me.
I want to go with whom I love.
Oh no! Is this post in lieu of Valentine’s Day?
Comment by Fingers — February 13, 2006 @ 5:47 pm
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Comment by Ajit — February 14, 2006 @ 5:01 am