今天將要結束，明天也將結束，難以結束的是昨天。 ——波契亞 我會(huì )是一個(gè)棄兒，被拋在茫茫滄海的堤岸；或是一個(gè)趕車(chē)的小馬夫，額頭碰到蒼天。
有時(shí)我在天空看見(jiàn)一片無(wú)垠的沙灘，上面有歡快潔白的民族。一艘大金船從我頭頂駛過(guò)，晨風(fēng)輕拂著(zhù)繽紛的彩旗，我創(chuàng )造了所有的節日，所有的凱旋，所有的戲劇。 ——阿瑟·蘭波 阿根廷詩(shī)人：安東尼奧·波契亞 Antonio Porchia (1886-1968) Antonio Porchia was born in Italy and lived in Argentina from 1911 until his death. All his writings (aphorisms) are contained in one book: Voices (the following quotations are from W.S. Merwins 1988 translation of this work).
According to Merwin, Porchia claimed that his aphorisms were not his own but "emanations which he has heard and set down."
Roberto Juarroz, another writer from Argentina and a close friend of Porchias, wrote: "I do not remember another being who was so simple and so graceful....When we were with him we heard each word deepen under his boundless attention. His way of listening seemed to create a depth in his companions. And when he spoke we had the feeling that he did so from the other side, which then became infinitely close, much closer than this side." 他僅有一本書(shū)《遺忘的聲音》
Truth has very few friends ,and those few are suicides.
Treat me as you should treat me, not as I should be treated.
He who holds me by a thread is not strong; the thread is strong.
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
If you do not raise your eyes ,you will think that you are the highest point.
Before I traveled my road I was my road.
In no one did I find who I should be like. And I stayed like that: like no one.
I come from dying, not from having been born. From having been born I am going.
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.
Nothing that is complete breathes.
They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.
You will find the distance that separates you from them, by joining them.
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
I will help you to approach if you approach, and to keep away if you keep away.
The mystery brings peace to my eyes, not blindness.
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
He who tells the truth says almost nothing.
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
The flower that you hold in your hands was born today ,and already it is as old as you are.
They will say that you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.
Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed?
Suffering does not follow us. It goes before us.
The tree is alone, the cloud is alone. Everything is alone when I am alone.
A hundred years die in a moment, just as a moment dies in a moment.
Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below.And everyone wants to rise.
My body separates me from every being and from every thing. Nothing but my body.
I saw a dead man. And I was little, little, little… My God, what a great thing a dead man is!
Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.
Only a few arrive at nothing, because the way is long.
In my silence only my voice is missing.
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
A child shows his toy, a man hides his. Near me nothing but distances.
The loss of a thing affects us until we have lost it altogether.
When one does not love the impossible, one does not love anything.
All that I know does not even help me to know it.
All that I have lost I find at every step,and remember that I have lost it.
My pieces of time play with eternity.
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
To wound the heart is to create it.
The fear of separation is all that unites.
When you seem to be listening to my words, they seem to be your words, with me listening.
When I have nothing left, I will ask for no more.
Every toy has the right to break.
Sometimes I believe that evil is everything, and that good is only a beautiful desire for evil.
A large heart can be filled with very little.
The love that is not all pain is not all love.
As long as we think we are worth something, we wrong ourselves.
The harm that I have not done, what harm it has done!
He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.
I would ask something more of this world if it had something more.
You do not see the river of tears because it lacks one tear of your own.
My neighbors poverty makes me feel poor; my own does not.
Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror
I can wait for you no longer. Because you have arrived.
The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken.
You wound and you will wound again. Because you wound and then you go away. You do not stay with the wound.
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. 我最早知道波契亞是通過(guò)德國詩(shī)人布加特，安東尼奧·波契亞是阿根廷作家，出生在意大利南部的卡拉布里亞，自幼喪父，15歲時(shí)母親帶著(zhù)他和另外五個(gè)兄弟姐妹移居阿根廷，而他的長(cháng)兄則永遠留在了意大利。為了幫助養活全家，他拼命在港口和印刷廠(chǎng)工作，幾乎是從日常生活的經(jīng)驗和觀(guān)察中，本能地出現了跳躍的詞語(yǔ)、格言，最終形成了一行行的文字?！哆z忘的聲音》是波契亞僅有的一部文學(xué)著(zhù)作，這部小冊子的法文版在巴黎出版以后，受到了勒內·夏爾、安德烈·布勒東和阿瑟·米勒等人的熱烈贊揚。波契亞從日常生活中提煉出了詩(shī)性的智慧，他被認為是少數幾個(gè)擁有禪宗思想和東方哲學(xué)的西方作家之一，并因此受到人們的推崇。
布加特有一個(gè)“波契亞計劃”，即將《遺忘的聲音》用各種語(yǔ)言表現出來(lái)并加以匯合。西班牙語(yǔ)原聲當然用作家本人的，英語(yǔ)方面，波契亞去世的第二年，美國就出版了他的作品，譯者是W·S·默溫，德語(yǔ)布加特親自動(dòng)手，漢語(yǔ)他約了我，其他語(yǔ)種還包括意大利語(yǔ)、法語(yǔ)、葡萄牙語(yǔ)、瑞典語(yǔ)、波蘭語(yǔ)、希伯萊語(yǔ)、阿拉伯語(yǔ)、日本語(yǔ)、朝鮮語(yǔ)、蒙古語(yǔ)和越南語(yǔ)等。這將是一部附有CD的奇特有趣的書(shū)，不需要任何翻譯。這里選摘的一部分全部出自《遺忘的聲音》。 (20世紀世界詩(shī)歌譯叢第二輯《美洲譯詩(shī)文選》, 河北教育出版社出版, 蔡天新譯)
1.某些走在時(shí)代前面的人抵達的是不毛之地.
2.有時(shí)候需要用一根火柴去點(diǎn)亮那些星星.
3.如果不是在云中漫步,我會(huì )迷失方向的.
4.你的口渴止于一杯水,而非一片海洋.
5.一件事物的價(jià)值并不取決于它的過(guò)去,而取決于它的未來(lái).
6.如果你不能讓我哭或者笑,你只能讓我厭倦.
7.我做得不好,別的人可能干得更糟.
8.甚至連最小的生物也能引導眼睛里的太陽(yáng).
9.假如你對每個(gè)人都好,沒(méi)有人會(huì )認為你好.
10.對于死去的人來(lái)說(shuō),這片土地與最遙遠的星辰?jīng)]有什么兩樣.
11.誰(shuí)以為有了面包就是天堂,那他的饑餓可能就是地獄.
12.當你過(guò)于專(zhuān)注一件事時(shí),你甚至看不見(jiàn)它.
13.愛(ài)情包含在一朵花中時(shí)是無(wú)限的.
14.我看不見(jiàn)淚河是因為缺少我的一滴淚.
15.我差不多到達了這里,時(shí)間猶如一座橋梁,無(wú)論如何都要通過(guò).
16.花朵的美麗在于簡(jiǎn)潔.
17.一雙眼睛的價(jià)值相當于一百萬(wàn)顆星星.
18.遠處的火焰讓人興奮,近處的火焰使人冷靜.
19.傷口是花朵的溫床.
20.心與心挨得太近常常會(huì )感到痛楚.
21.有些遺忘存在別人的記憶里.
22.所有的無(wú)名氏都是完美無(wú)缺的.
23.當你確信她一點(diǎn)也不愛(ài)你的時(shí)候,你是不會(huì )去愛(ài)她的.
24.因為有道理你才會(huì )受到傷害.
25.圣靈降生在地獄而不在天堂.
26.終日與壁爐相伴的人必死于寒冷.
27.我們并不向往的生活容納了我們向往的生活.
28.認真是兒童的天性,只在某些成年人身上得到保留.
29.醒悟總是伴隨著(zhù)詫異.
30.時(shí)間是一件無(wú)法確定的不變的事物.
31.當情人開(kāi)始厭倦你時(shí),你開(kāi)始依戀她了.
32.讓許多人滿(mǎn)意比讓一個(gè)人滿(mǎn)意容易的多.
33.距離可以縮短,可以填充;空虛則不然.
34.兒童和成人有著(zhù)不同的痛苦,相同的哭泣.
35.假如沒(méi)有明天,這些花朵永遠是美麗的.
36.那些你并不想砸碎的鎖鏈不是真正的鎖鏈.
37.原先我只了解自己,后來(lái)除了自己什么都不了解.
38.偉大的愛(ài)情原本是脆弱的.
39.丑惡之所以存在是因為美麗包容不了一切.
40.如果人類(lèi)擁有翅膀,可能會(huì )飛得更低.
41.我身體里最黑暗的部位發(fā)出最明亮的光.
42.愛(ài)每一個(gè)人就無(wú)法愛(ài)一個(gè)人.
43.我的眼睛里有著(zhù)太多的云彩,有時(shí)候我自己也會(huì )迷失其中.
44.既然生活像一個(gè)大海,它的滋味只能一口口地品嘗.
45.在各種壞事情中必定有好的,而且出奇的好.
46.再沒(méi)有比云彩和太陽(yáng)之間的游戲更令人不快的了.
47.不存在另外的時(shí)刻,只存在下一個(gè)時(shí)刻.
48.什么都想要的人不知道想要什么.
49.一分鐘可以改變一切,一萬(wàn)年卻改變不了多少.
50.恥辱并沒(méi)有傷害我,只有當別人把它擲向我時(shí),我才會(huì )受到傷害.
51.有的事情,當你試圖作出解釋時(shí),反而忘記了它的意義.
52.你找不到一顆心,因為你已經(jīng)有了一顆心.
53.當你有了最好的東西時(shí),再也不會(huì )有更好的了.
54.如果你擁有一個(gè)世界,你不會(huì )再去尋找另一個(gè).
55.沒(méi)有一種疼痛不可以呻吟.
56.我的肉體不再疼痛的時(shí)候,我的靈魂反倒開(kāi)始疼痛了.
57.年輕人依戀的是青春,老年人依戀的是時(shí)間.
58.什么都有了,你會(huì )失去一切的.
59.愛(ài)得太深了以至于無(wú)法表現出來(lái).
60.美麗的事物經(jīng)常打斷我的夢(mèng)想.
61.永恒可以在瞬間被摧毀.
62.一切都處于運動(dòng)之中,一切又像你我一樣,是一個(gè)固定的點(diǎn).
63.愛(ài)情的產(chǎn)生需要兩個(gè)人,消失只需要一個(gè)人.
64.小的挫折讓你生氣,大的挫折讓你嘆息.
65.每個(gè)人活著(zhù)各不相同,死去卻是一樣的.
66.壞的東西與好的東西在一起時(shí)就不那么壞了.
67.沒(méi)有人會(huì )面對星空感到膽怯.
68.有些東西需要閉上眼睛才能看見(jiàn).
69.一顆真實(shí)的心從不乞求.
70.在一次孤獨的旅行中,我活著(zhù)并且死去.
71.在我看來(lái)即將凋謝的花朵是最美的.
72.屬于你的東西即使沒(méi)有得到也是好的,不屬于你的東西即使得到了也不美.
73.明天,你又為何要返回?
74.我的眼睛睜得太大了,不知道朝哪里看.
75.星星再多,也無(wú)法驅散寒夜.
76.鎖鏈可不是用來(lái)相互連接的.
77.生命的好處是,當它逝去時(shí),價(jià)值仍在.
78.血若是從眼睛里流出來(lái)就是火.
79.所謂事物的本質(zhì)乃是我們所無(wú)法賦予的.
80.在花朵的背后我見(jiàn)到了人影.
81.永恒是短促的生命創(chuàng )造的.
82.真理,當我們正在思索時(shí),是說(shuō)不出口的.
83.一個(gè)人過(guò)于誠實(shí),沒(méi)有人愿意和他做伴,我也不會(huì ).
84.我的愚蠢并不是由我而是由它自己掌管的.
85.世界之大容納不下一個(gè)傷口.
86.蜜汁釀成的痛苦才是真正的痛苦.
87.一個(gè)真誠的人幾乎是一個(gè)奇跡.
88.鮮血只能止于最后一滴.
89.當一位老人承認自己老了,他必定無(wú)所不知.
90.外表的華麗襯托出內心的失落.
91.我們心靈的養料來(lái)源于童年.
92.我剛殺死一只昆蟲(chóng),天哪!它流出的血像一片大海.
93.人要呼吸新鮮的空氣只是為證實(shí)自己還活著(zhù),因為人需要證實(shí)自己還活著(zhù).
94.假如沒(méi)有花朵、星星和匕首,活著(zhù)是多么無(wú)趣啊!
95.你剛做了一個(gè)美夢(mèng),僅此一點(diǎn)你感到了滿(mǎn)足.
96.獨身生活的人最依戀這片土地.
97.終究是要通過(guò)這個(gè)時(shí)刻,永恒的時(shí)刻,微笑的時(shí)刻.
98.離星星越近的人離我們越遠.
99.當你意識到生命中的一半已成往昔,你的死期已不遙遠.
100.希望不屬于花朵,因為希望屬于明天,而花朵沒(méi)有明天.
101.當你的軀體和靈魂一塊墜落時(shí),人們只會(huì )去挽救你的軀體.
102.愛(ài)情本來(lái)是一個(gè)丑惡的傷疤,覆蓋上鮮花以后才顯得美麗.
103.每個(gè)人都能夠置你于死地,但不是每個(gè)人都能夠傷害你.
104.把不再墜落的東西抬高并不是件難事.
105.今天將要結束,明天也將結束,難以結束的是昨天.
106.那些需要我們去做的事情大多是我們不需要的.
107.人們對自己知道的事情深信不疑,假如知道得不多的話(huà).
108.生命只是一次長(cháng)長(cháng)的企盼,加上一次長(cháng)長(cháng)的企盼的結束.
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