SILENTIUM!

Speak not, lie hidden, and conceal
The way you dream, the things you feel.
Deep in your spirit let them rise
akin to stars in crystal skies
that set before the night is blurred:
delight in them and speak no word

How can a heart expression find?
How should another know your mind?
Will he discern what quickens you?
A thought once is untrue.
Dimmed is the fountainhead when stirred:
drink at the source and speak no word.

Live in your inner self alone
within your soul a world has grown,
the magic of veiled thoughts that might
be blinded by the outer light,
drowned in the noise of day, unheard …
take in their song and speak no word.

-  Fyodor Tyutchev, translated by Vladimir Nabokov

graemebooks

83 notes

Show

  1. couldlooklikedew reblogged this from dasdingansich
  2. joe-vaughan reblogged this from graemebooks
  3. shawomanist reblogged this from crashinglybeautiful
  4. schmudde reblogged this from dasdingansich
  5. luxetoile reblogged this from dreaminginthedeepsouth
  6. fairphantom reblogged this from crashinglybeautiful
  7. malditarebel reblogged this from miss-mary-quite-contrary
  8. decadentdemons reblogged this from crashinglybeautiful
  9. crashinglybeautiful reblogged this from dasdingansich and added:
    (from: dreaminginthedeepsouth, thehermitage,
  10. dasdingansich reblogged this from dreaminginthedeepsouth
  11. dreaminginthedeepsouth reblogged this from thehermitage
  12. alchemistsdaughter reblogged this from spanghew
  13. spanghew reblogged this from crashinglybeautiful
  14. slubberdegullion-druggel reblogged this from dancingcorpse
  15. themightymagyar reblogged this from graemebooks
  16. tffnyw reblogged this from crashinglybeautiful
  17. luffenmeihn reblogged this from undeadaffairs
  18. missspite reblogged this from undeadaffairs

Blog comments powered by Disqus