Notebook

A commonplace book

Lines from what I’m reading, kept in the language I found them in; images, stuff and things I’ve come across; &c.

Español

[…] no llega al cielo porque la unidad de su proyecto se descompone en la multiplicidad.

Enrique Lihn, on Nicanor Parra

Enrique Lihn (1951), quoted in Niall Binns, “Introducción,” in Nicanor Parra, Obras completas & algo más, vol. I (Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg / Círculo de Lectores, 2011), p. XLIV.

English

So the goddess fled from her place, with awful Sound of feet and thunder of wings around her; While behind a clamour of singing women Severed the twilight.

Algernon Charles Swinburne, “Sapphics”

Lines 21–24, in Major Poems and Selected Prose (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 134.