Time is too long for life;
For knowledge not enough.
What have we come for, night, heart of night?
Dream that we do not die
And, at times, for a moment, wake.
Rosario Castellanos
1925-1974
Further reading: The Other Mexico by Tom Gething
Time is too long for life;
For knowledge not enough.
What have we come for, night, heart of night?
Dream that we do not die
And, at times, for a moment, wake.
Rosario Castellanos
1925-1974
Further reading: The Other Mexico by Tom Gething
Thanks for introducing to Rosario Castellanos’s poetry. This one reminded me of Hamlet’s soliloquy (To be or not to be):
“To die, to sleep—
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks
That Flesh is heir to? ‘Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep,
To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come”
Thank you for Hamlet’s soliloquy. Powerfully appropriate.
beautiful and also new….thank you!
Very beautiful, indeed. And my first poet from Mexico..
This is a wonderful poem. I really like the mood she created and her writing style.
So too do I, Jackie. She is new to me, thanks to another wordpress colleague.
Lovely, Russell. Now I must explore her poetry.
And thank you, Tom, for introducing me to her.