/lit/ - Literature

>>4787642

Pues tomando el sol, y viendo las olas...

La verga con los jóvenes. Han dejado las letras y dicen que ahora usan la espada para los gringos.

"Tonight I can write the saddest lines."

What do you think of translated poetry, /lit/? Can it ever be as meaningful as the original?

I just got one of my poems printed at the town's free newspaper, right next to ads of an organic food store, a repair shop, a mayonnaise coupon for the local quickie mart, and an obituary.

Am I poet now?

After a couple of decades of reading, there is only one author who has ever made me feel, with his art, the chill down the spine I get from this slice of awesomeness...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvVmqnNBo9w

And that is, ladies and gentlemen, Pablo Neruda. Turn off the lights, poetry died with the Chilean Condor.