"solitudine di mare"

Emily Dickinson

 

There is a solitude of space A solitude of sea
A solitude of Death, but these
Society shall be
Compared with that profounder site
That polar privacy
A soul admitted to itself -
Finite infinity.

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C'è una solitudine di spazio
Una solitudine di mare
Una solitudine di morte, ma
faranno lega tutte quante
a paragone con quell'estremo punto
quella polare ritrosia
di un'anima ammessa a se medesima - 

Finita infinità.  

trad. di Mario Luzi

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

solitude

perpetual presence of the sublime

  

"To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature