Искусствоед
Ingeborg Bachmann
Gedichte 1962-1963
Kardinalfehler
Ingeborg Bachmann
The Collected Poems
Poems 1962-1963
Cardinal Mistake
To compare oneself to popes
and believers, yourself
appointed neither a pope
nor a believer, rather a non-believer
who praises, whose rags also
turn cardinal red, whose cap
flies away, no hat fitting
satanic existence.
transl. by Peter Filkins
Gedichte 1962-1963
Kardinalfehler
Ingeborg Bachmann
The Collected Poems
Poems 1962-1963
Cardinal Mistake
To compare oneself to popes
and believers, yourself
appointed neither a pope
nor a believer, rather a non-believer
who praises, whose rags also
turn cardinal red, whose cap
flies away, no hat fitting
satanic existence.
transl. by Peter Filkins