Today's Beautiful Gem

Today's Beautiful Gem: `Poet's Epitaph (Epitafio para un poeta)'
by Octavio Paz, translated by Muriel Rukeyser.

"Quiso cantar, cantar
para olvidar
su vida verdadera de mentiras
y recordar
su mentirosa vida de verdades."

"He tried to sing, singing
not to remember
his true life of lies
and to remember
his lying life of truths."

Om s'aantih: Peace! - J. K. Mohana Rao

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