y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos'...
Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.
Es tan corto al amor, y es tan largo el olvido.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example, 'The night is shattered,
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'...
I no longer love her, that is certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
-Pablo Neruda
This is perhaps my favorite poet, Pablo Neruda, the poem to right is translated. In my opinion though, the translated version does Pablo's original version no justice.
I understand now, that although we can translate different languages,
we can never really fully understand the depth and feeling of what is being said in the native language.
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