Frasi di Louis Simpson

Louis Aston Marantz Simpson è stato un poeta giamaicano naturalizzato statunitense.

Nel 1964 ha vinto il Premio Pulitzer per la poesia grazie alla raccolta di poesie At The End Of The Open Road. Wikipedia

✵ 27. Marzo 1923 – 18. Settembre 2012

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Louis Simpson: Frasi in inglese

“When I was in hospital I found I could hardly read or writ. In these circumstances I began to write poems. I found that poetry was the only kind of writing in which I could express my thoughts. One night I dreamed I was lying on the bank of a canal, under machine gun fire. The next morning I wrote it out, Carentan O Caretan, and as I wrote I realized it was not a dream, but the memory of my first time under fire”

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The Poetry of War 1939-45 ed. Ian Hamilton, London 1965
Carentan O Carentan, 1948

“All that grave weight of America
Cancelled! Like Greece and Rome.
The future in ruins!”

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Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain (l. 35-37) (1962)
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“I did not wish to protest against war. My object was to remember. I wanted people to find in my poems the truth of what it had been like to be an American infantry soldier. Now I see I was writing a memorial of those years, for the me I had known, who were silent.”

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The Poetry of War ed. Ian Hamilton , London 1945
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“Where is the Mississippi panorama
And the girl who played the piano?
Where are you, Walt?
The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.”

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Walt Whitman at Bear Mountainjim hutchinson quote " I would have not lived my life
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“For people may not know what they think
about politics in the Balkans,
or the vexed question of men and women,
but everyone has a definite opinion
about the flavour of shredded coconut.”

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Chocolates (l. 18-22) (1980)
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“It's complicated, being an American,
Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.
Perhaps, after all, this is not the right subject for a poem.”

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On the Lawn at the Villa (l. 14-16) (1980) It is not your job to like me, it is mine.
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