Thy words are torture to me, by Pessoa ๐Ÿ“ƒ๐Ÿ–‹๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น

Portrait of Ferdando Pessoa , by Jose de Almada-Negreiros

from ยซ35 Sonnetsยป. 1918, in Poemas Ingleses. by Fernando Pessoa – translated into Italian by Enzo Martinelli

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง

VIII – Thy words are torture to me, that scarce grieve thee

Thy words are torture to me, that scarce grieve thee โ€“
That entire death shall null my entire thought;
And I feel torture, not that I believe thee,
But that I cannot disbelieve thee not.
Shall that of me that now contains the stars
Be by the very contained stars survived?
Thus were Fate all unjust. Yet what truth bars
An all unjust Fate's truth from being believed?
Conjecture cannot fit to the seen world
A garment of its thought untorn or covering,
Or with its stuffed garb forge an otherworld
Without itself its dead deceit discovering;
So, all being possible, an idle thought may
Less idle thoughts, self-known no truer, dismay.

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น

Le tue parole sono una tortura per me, e ciรฒ poco ti affligge.
Quella morte assoluta annullerร  il mio intero pensiero;
e mi sento torturato, non perchรฉ ti creda,
ma perchรฉ non posso non crederti.
Sarร  quello di me che ora contiene le stelle
vivo dopo quelle stesse stelle?
Quindi il Fato era del tutto ingiusto. Quale veritร  vieta
alla veritร  di un destino del tutto ingiusto di essere creduta?
Le congetture non possono adattarsi al mondo visibile 
un indumento del suo pensiero puro o avvolgente,
o con il suo abito posticcio forgia un altro universo
senza svelare se stesse come un suo inganno mortale;
quindi, poichรฉ tutto รจ possibile, un pensiero ozioso puรฒ 
svilire pensieri meno oziosi, ma non piรน veri pensieri.
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