If I Could Tell You by W.H. Auden

Time will say nothing but I told you so,
Time only knows the price we have to pay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.

If we should weep when clowns put on their show,
If we should stumble when musicians play,
Time will say nothing but I told you so.

There are no fortunes to be told, although,
Because I love you more than I can say,
If I could tell you I would let you know.

The winds must come from somewhere when they blow,
There must be reasons why the leaves decay;
Time will say nothing but I told you so.

Perhaps the roses really want to grow,
The vision seriously intends to stay;
If I could tell you I would let you know.

Suppose all the lions get up and go,
And all the brooks and soldiers run away;
Will Time say nothing but I told you so?
If I could tell you I would let you know.

"Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." - W.H. Auden

Anvita's moved to Bombay. I'll miss her.

Quatrain by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Zabt ka aih'd bhi hai, shauq ka
paiman bhi hai
aih'd-o-paiman se guzar jaane ko ji
chahta hai
dard itna hai ke har rag mein hai
maih'shar barpa
aur sukoon aisa ke mar'jaane ko ji
chahta hai

- Faiz Ahmed Faiz


Translation:
My vow of restraint, also my desire's covenant.
But I wish to move beyond both pledges and promises.
Pain so intense, there's a riot in every vein--
and such tranquility that I'd rather cease to be.

LIFE, LIFE

I tailored the age to fit me.
We walked to the south, raising dust above the steppe;
The tall weeds fumed; the grasshopper danced,
Touching its antenna to the horse-shoes - and it prophesied,
Threatening me with destruction, like a monk.
I strapped my fate to the saddle;
And even now, in these coming times,
I stand up in the stirrups like a child.

I'm satisfied with deathlessness,
For my blood to flow from age to age.
Yet for a corner whose warmth I could rely on
I'd willingly have given all my life,
Whenever her flying needle
Tugged me, like a thread, around the globe.


-Arseny Tarkovsky

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In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The Cuckoo Clock.

- Orson Welles,
The Third Man (1949)