Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning.

Every poem an epitaph.

/ T.S.Eliot /


miércoles, 8 de agosto de 2012

- T.S. Eliot - Cuatro Cuartetos/East Coker -




Dices que repito algo que ya he dicho.
Lo diré otra vez. ¿Volveré a decirlo?
para llegar adonde estás
desde el lugar en el que no te encuentras,
deberás seguir un camino
en el que el éxtasis no existe.
Para acceder a lo que no conoces
debes seguir una senda de ignorancia.
Para poseer lo que no posees
debes recorrer el camino
de la desposesión.
Para poder ser quien aún no eres
debes seguir el sendero en que no estás.
Y sólo sabes lo que ignoras
y lo que no tienes es lo que tienes
y estás donde no estás.


You say I am repeating
something I have said before. I shall say it again.
Shall I say it again? In order to arrive there,
to arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,
you must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
In order to arrive at what you do not know
you must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.
In order to possess what you do not possess
you must go by the way of dispossession.
In order to arrive at what you are not
you must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know
and what you own is what you do not own
and where you are is where you are not.

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