Patience

RIC_8970-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.




     The root of the Italian word for patience, pazienza, comes
     from pax or pacem, Latin for peace. Within patience, there
     is peace. So simple, yet so startling.


      W. S. Merwin, , "Pazienza," Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul, Selected and
      Introduced by Judith Valentine and Charles Reynard

Tragedy

RIC_7922-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

La tragedia del hombre es mayor cuando se la deja caer.

The tragedy of man is greater when he gives it up.

Antonio Porchia, Voices, translated by W. S. Merwin

Heart

RIC_6654-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

En una alma llena cabe todo y en una alma vacía no cabe nada.

¡Quién comprende!

A full of heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing.

Who understands?

Antonio Porchia, Voices, translated by W. S. Merwin

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Dream

RC1_8919, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

El sueño que no se alimenta de sueño desaparece.

The dream which is not fed with dream disappears.

Antonio Porchia, Voices, translated by W. S. Merwin

Words

Peace in Arabic[1]
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Lo que dicen las palabras no dura. Duran las palabras. Porque las palabras son siempre las mismas y lo que dicen no es nunca lo mismo.


What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

Antonio Porchia, trans., W. S. Merwin, Voices