Frasi di Luis de Góngora
Luis de Góngora
Data di nascita: 11. Luglio 1561
Data di morte: 23. Maggio 1627
Luis de Góngora y Argote è stato un religioso, poeta e drammaturgo spagnolo del Secolo d'Oro , massimo esponente della corrente letteraria conosciuta come culteranesimo o gongorismo, che più tardi altri artisti imiteranno. Le sue opere furono oggetto di esegesi già nella stessa sua epoca.
Frasi Luis de Góngora
„[Alla rosa] Sei nata ieri, morirai domani, | chi per sì breve vita t'ha creata?“
— Luis de Góngora
citato in Corriere della sera, 22 gennaio 2010
„Oh mura eccelse, oh torri incoronate | di onore, di maestà, di gagliardia! | Oh grande fiume, re di Andalusia | dalle sabbie nobili quando non dorate!
Oh fertile pianura, montagne elevate | che il cielo predilige e il giorno indora! | Oh sempre gloriosa patria mia, | tanto per le penne come per le spade!“
— Luis de Góngora
da A Córdoba
„The hours will hardly forgive you, those hours that are wearing away the days, those days that are gnawing away the years.“
— Luis de Góngora
"De la brevedad engañosa de la vida", line 12, cited from J. M. Cohen (ed.) The Penguin Book of Spanish Verse (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962) p. 278. Translation from the same source.
„Longer than a winter's night for a man who is ill-wed.“
— Luis de Góngora
"Murmuraban los rocines", line 94, cited from Poesias de D. Luis de Gongora y Argote (Madrid: Imprenta Nacional, 1820) p. 83. Translation from Henry Baerlein The House of the Fighting-cocks (London: Leonard Parsons, 1922) p. 92.
„Let me go warm and merry still;
And let the world laugh, an' it will.“
— Luis de Góngora
Letrillas, "Andeme yo caliente", line 1, cited from Robert Jammes (ed.) Letrillas (Madrid: Castalia, 1980) p. 115. Translation from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Poets and Poetry of Europe (New York: C. S. Francis, 1855) p. 695
„Feathers are Love's most fitting battle-ground.“
— Luis de Góngora
Las Soledades, Soledad 1, line 1091, cited from Gilbert F. Cunningham (trans.) The Solitudes of Luis de Góngora (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968) p. 76. Translation from the same source, p. 77.
„Life is a wounded stag in whom the fast-stuck arrows function as wings.“
— Luis de Góngora
"¡Oh cuán bien que acusa Alcino!", line 23; cited from Poesias de D. Luis de Gongora y Argote (Madrid: Imprenta Nacional, 1820) p. 74. Translation from Ronald M. Macandrew Naturalism in Spanish Poetry from the Origins to 1900 (Aberdeen: Milne and Hutchinson, 1931) p. 75.
„Let merchants traverse seas and lands,
For silver mines and golden sands;
Whilst I beside some shadowy rill,
Just where its bubbling fountain swells,
Do sit and gather stones and shells,
And hear the tale the blackbird tells.“
— Luis de Góngora
Letrillas, "Andeme yo caliente", line 24, cited from Robert Jammes (ed.) Letrillas (Madrid: Castalia, 1980) p. 116. Translation from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Poets and Poetry of Europe (New York: C. S. Francis, 1855) p. 695
