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Williams, William Carlos: Téli csönd (Winter Quiet in Hungarian)

Portre of Williams, William Carlos
Portre of Kodolányi Gyula

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Winter Quiet (English)

Limb to limb, mouth to mouth
with the bleached grass
silver mist lies upon the back yards
among the outhouses.
                             The dwarf trees
pirouette awkwardly to it -
whirling round on one toe;
the big tree smiles and glances
                             upward!
Tense with suppressed excitement
the fences watch where the ground
has humped an aching shoulder for
                            the ecstasy.



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Téli csönd (Hungarian)

Test testen, száj szájon,
ezüst pára fekszik
a kifehéredett füvön
hátul a fészerek mellett.
                      A törpe fák
félszegen táncolnak hozzá,
lábujjhegyen forognak;
a nagy fa mosolyog és elnéz
                       a levegőbe!
Fojtott izgalomtól feszülten
lesik a sövények, hogy
görbíti sajgó vállát a föld
               az önkívületnek.



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Source of the quotationK. Gy.

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