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sábado, 27 de junho de 2009
William Blake: Auguries Of Innocence
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage.
A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeons
Shudders hell thro' all its regions.
A dog starv'd at his master's gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.
A horse misused upon the road
Calls to heaven for human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted hare
A fibre from the brain does tear.
A skylark wounded in the wing,
A cherubim does cease to sing.
The game-cock clipt and arm'd for fight
Does the rising sun affright.
Every wolf's and lion's howl
Raises from hell a human soul.
The wild deer, wand'ring here and there,
Keeps the human soul from care.
The lamb misus'd breeds public strife,
And yet forgives the butcher's knife.
The bat that flits at close of eve
Has left the brain that won't believe.
The owl that calls upon the night
Speaks the unbeliever's fright.
He who shall hurt the little wren
Shall never be belov'd by men.
He who the ox to wrath has mov'd
Shall never be by woman lov'd.
The wanton boy that kills the fly
Shall feel the spider's enmity.
He who torments the chafer's sprite
Weaves a bower in endless night.
The caterpillar on the leaf
Repeats to thee thy mother's grief.
Kill not the moth nor butterfly,
For the last judgement draweth nigh.
He who shall train the horse to war
Shall never pass the polar bar.
The beggar's dog and widow's cat,
Feed them and thou wilt grow fat.
The gnat that sings his summer's song
Poison gets from slander's tongue.
The poison of the snake and newt
Is the sweat of envy's foot.
The poison of the honey bee
Is the artist's jealousy.
The prince's robes and beggar's rags
Are toadstools on the miser's bags.
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
It is right it should be so;
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the world we safely go.
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.
The babe is more than swaddling bands;
Every farmer understands.
Every tear from every eye
Becomes a babe in eternity;
This is caught by females bright,
And return'd to its own delight.
The bleat, the bark, bellow, and roar,
Are waves that beat on heaven's shore.
The babe that weeps the rod beneath
Writes revenge in realms of death.
The beggar's rags, fluttering in air,
Does to rags the heavens tear.
The soldier, arm'd with sword and gun,
Palsied strikes the summer's sun.
The poor man's farthing is worth more
Than all the gold on Afric's shore.
One mite wrung from the lab'rer's hands
Shall buy and sell the miser's lands;
Or, if protected from on high,
Does that whole nation sell and buy.
He who mocks the infant's faith
Shall be mock'd in age and death.
He who shall teach the child to doubt
The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
He who respects the infant's faith
Triumphs over hell and death.
The child's toys and the old man's reasons
Are the fruits of the two seasons.
The questioner, who sits so sly,
Shall never know how to reply.
He who replies to words of doubt
Doth put the light of knowledge out.
The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caesar's laurel crown.
Nought can deform the human race
Like to the armour's iron brace.
When gold and gems adorn the plow,
To peaceful arts shall envy bow.
A riddle, or the cricket's cry,
Is to doubt a fit reply.
The emmet's inch and eagle's mile
Make lame philosophy to smile.
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
If the sun and moon should doubt,
They'd immediately go out.
To be in a passion you good may do,
But no good if a passion is in you.
The whore and gambler, by the state
Licensed, build that nation's fate.
The harlot's cry from street to street
Shall weave old England's winding-sheet.
The winner's shout, the loser's curse,
Dance before dead England's hearse.
Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
We are led to believe a lie
When we see not thro' the eye,
Which was born in a night to perish in a night,
When the soul slept in beams of light.
God appears, and God is light,
To those poor souls who dwell in night;
But does a human form display
To those who dwell in realms of day.
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage.
A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeons
Shudders hell thro' all its regions.
A dog starv'd at his master's gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.
A horse misused upon the road
Calls to heaven for human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted hare
A fibre from the brain does tear.
A skylark wounded in the wing,
A cherubim does cease to sing.
The game-cock clipt and arm'd for fight
Does the rising sun affright.
Every wolf's and lion's howl
Raises from hell a human soul.
The wild deer, wand'ring here and there,
Keeps the human soul from care.
The lamb misus'd breeds public strife,
And yet forgives the butcher's knife.
The bat that flits at close of eve
Has left the brain that won't believe.
The owl that calls upon the night
Speaks the unbeliever's fright.
He who shall hurt the little wren
Shall never be belov'd by men.
He who the ox to wrath has mov'd
Shall never be by woman lov'd.
The wanton boy that kills the fly
Shall feel the spider's enmity.
He who torments the chafer's sprite
Weaves a bower in endless night.
The caterpillar on the leaf
Repeats to thee thy mother's grief.
Kill not the moth nor butterfly,
For the last judgement draweth nigh.
He who shall train the horse to war
Shall never pass the polar bar.
The beggar's dog and widow's cat,
Feed them and thou wilt grow fat.
The gnat that sings his summer's song
Poison gets from slander's tongue.
The poison of the snake and newt
Is the sweat of envy's foot.
The poison of the honey bee
Is the artist's jealousy.
The prince's robes and beggar's rags
Are toadstools on the miser's bags.
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
It is right it should be so;
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the world we safely go.
Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.
The babe is more than swaddling bands;
Every farmer understands.
Every tear from every eye
Becomes a babe in eternity;
This is caught by females bright,
And return'd to its own delight.
The bleat, the bark, bellow, and roar,
Are waves that beat on heaven's shore.
The babe that weeps the rod beneath
Writes revenge in realms of death.
The beggar's rags, fluttering in air,
Does to rags the heavens tear.
The soldier, arm'd with sword and gun,
Palsied strikes the summer's sun.
The poor man's farthing is worth more
Than all the gold on Afric's shore.
One mite wrung from the lab'rer's hands
Shall buy and sell the miser's lands;
Or, if protected from on high,
Does that whole nation sell and buy.
He who mocks the infant's faith
Shall be mock'd in age and death.
He who shall teach the child to doubt
The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
He who respects the infant's faith
Triumphs over hell and death.
The child's toys and the old man's reasons
Are the fruits of the two seasons.
The questioner, who sits so sly,
Shall never know how to reply.
He who replies to words of doubt
Doth put the light of knowledge out.
The strongest poison ever known
Came from Caesar's laurel crown.
Nought can deform the human race
Like to the armour's iron brace.
When gold and gems adorn the plow,
To peaceful arts shall envy bow.
A riddle, or the cricket's cry,
Is to doubt a fit reply.
The emmet's inch and eagle's mile
Make lame philosophy to smile.
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
If the sun and moon should doubt,
They'd immediately go out.
To be in a passion you good may do,
But no good if a passion is in you.
The whore and gambler, by the state
Licensed, build that nation's fate.
The harlot's cry from street to street
Shall weave old England's winding-sheet.
The winner's shout, the loser's curse,
Dance before dead England's hearse.
Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
We are led to believe a lie
When we see not thro' the eye,
Which was born in a night to perish in a night,
When the soul slept in beams of light.
God appears, and God is light,
To those poor souls who dwell in night;
But does a human form display
To those who dwell in realms of day.
segunda-feira, 15 de junho de 2009
"A imensidão é o movimento do homem imóvel" (Gaston Bachelard)

Poderíamos dizer que a imensidão é uma categoria filosófica do devaneio. Sem dúvida, o devaneio alimenta-se de espectáculos variados; mas por uma espécie de inclinação inerente, ele contempla a grandeza. E a contemplação da grandeza determina uma atitude tão especial, um estado de alma tão particular que o devaneio coloca o sonhador fora do mundo próximo, diante de um mundo que traz o signo do infinito.
Pela simples lembrança, longe das imensidões do mar e da planície, podemos, na meditação, renovar em nós mesmos as ressonâncias dessa contemplação da grandeza. Mas trata-se realmente de uma lembrança? A imaginação, por si só, não poderá aumentar ilimitadamente as imagens da imensidão? A imaginação já não será activa desde a primeira contemplação? De facto, o devaneio é um estado inteiramente constituído desde o instante inicial. Não o vemos começar; e no entanto ele começa sempre da mesma maneira. Ele foge do objecto próximo e imediatamente está longe, além, no espaço do além (1).
Quando esse além é natural, quando não se aloja nas casas do passado, ele é imenso. E o devaneio é, poderíamos dizer, contemplação primordial.
Se pudéssemos analisar as impressões de imensidão, as imagens da imensidão ou o que a imensidade traz a uma imagem, entraríamos imediatamente numa região da mais pura fenomenologia – uma fenomenologia sem fenómenos ou, para falar menos paradoxalmente, uma fenomenologia que não precisa esperar que os fenómenos da imaginação se constituam e se estabilizem em imagens completas para conhecer o fluxo de produção das imagens. Noutras palavras, como o imenso não é um objecto, uma fenomenologia do imenso remeter-nos-ia sem rodeios à nossa consciência imaginante. Nesse caminho do devaneio de imensidão construiríamos em nós o ser puro da imaginação pura. Ficaria então claro que as obras de arte são os subprodutos desse existencialismo de ser imaginante. Nesse caminho do devaneio de imensidão, o verdadeiro produto é a consciência dessa ampliação. Sentimo-nos promovidos à dignidade do ser que admira.
Por conseguinte nessa meditação não somos “lançados no mundo”, já que de certa forma abrimos o mundo numa superação do mundo visto tal como ele é, tal como ele era antes que sonhássemos. Mesmo se estivermos conscientes do nosso ser mirrado – pela própria acção de uma dialéctica brutal - , tomamos consciência da grandeza. Somos então entregues a uma actividade natural do nosso ser imensificante.
A imensidão está em nós. Está ligada a uma espécie de expansão de ser que a vida refreia, que a prudência detém, mas que retorna na solidão. Quando estamos imóveis, estamos algures; sonhamos num mundo imenso. A imensidão é o movimento do homem imóvel. A imensidão é uma das características dinâmicas do devaneio tranquilo.
Gaston Bachelard
A Poética do Espaço
trad. António de Paula Danesi
Livraria Martins Fontes
S. Paulo, 1989
(1) “A distância arrasta-me no seu exílio móvel”, Supervielle,L´escalier
Fonte(imagem): http://www.pianolessons.net/img/lessons/bluespiano.jpg
Etiquetas:
devaneio,
expansão de ser,
imensidão,
infinito
quarta-feira, 10 de junho de 2009
"... não existe nada que seja mais terrível do que o infinito"
No horizonte do infinito - Deixamos a terra, subimos a bordo! Destruímos a ponte atrás de nós, melhor, destruímos a terra atrás de nós. E agora, barquinho, toma cuidado! Dos teus lados está o oceano; é verdade que nem sempre brame; a sua toalha estende-se às vezes como seda e ouro, um sonho de bondade. Mas virão as horas em que reconhecerás que ele é infinito e que não existe nada que seja mais terrível do que o infinito. Ah, pobre pássaro, que te sentias livre e que esbarras agora com as grades desta gaiola! Desgraçado de ti se fores dominado pela nostalgia [Heimweh]da terra, como se lá em baixo tivesse havido mais liberdade... agora que deixou de haver "terra"!
- Friedrich Nietzsche, A Gaia Ciência, tradução de Alfredo Margarido, Lisboa, Guimarães Editores, 1977, p.143.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, A Gaia Ciência, tradução de Alfredo Margarido, Lisboa, Guimarães Editores, 1977, p.143.
sexta-feira, 1 de agosto de 2008
Esgotável
Reclamo uma escala de valores absoluta.
(Por vezes consigo escrever muito. Nessas alturas, claro, forço-me a escrever. Fatigo-me, aflijo-me para nada.
No meu apartamento. Estou aqui no meu apartamento. Sim, isso, no meu apartamento de hoje, em casa, que náusea...
É louco, completamente louco: como compreender a palavra "inesgotável".
Estou esgotado, estou esgotado.
Como limitar o ilimitado.
Apenas procuro compreender o infinito. Eu, que desejava que me explicassem o que é o infinito. E coloco-me frente-a-frente com o infinito. Agarro-o pela cintura. Sem armas. Imagino o inimaginável. Esgoto-me inesgotável. Concebo o inconcebível...
Ah! Saber rezar... Nada mais... e quedar-me sossegado.
Estarei a ficar louco?
A fotografia, do senhor Escher.
quarta-feira, 18 de junho de 2008
Splash

Quem admiro: Soul Surfers
Para aqueles que eventualmente não conheçam, investiguem, porque é um ideal/modo de vida espectacular!, em tudo para lá da vida falsa, livre de cinzas...
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