Искусствоед
Ingeborg Bachmann
Gedichte 1962-1963
Gloriastrasse
Ingeborg Bachmann
The Collected Poems
Poems 1962-1963
Gloriastrasse
The blessing of morphine, but not the blessing of a letter,
the blessing of people, words, comforting words, but only
within delirium the single apparition which everyone awaits,
no return while alive, only transfiguration.
Evil, not simply mistakes, lasts,
what can be forgiven is long since forgiven, the blade's cut
has also healed, only the cut made by evil
does not heal, but opens during the night, every night.
transl. by Peter Filkins
Gedichte 1962-1963
Gloriastrasse
Ingeborg Bachmann
The Collected Poems
Poems 1962-1963
Gloriastrasse
The blessing of morphine, but not the blessing of a letter,
the blessing of people, words, comforting words, but only
within delirium the single apparition which everyone awaits,
no return while alive, only transfiguration.
Evil, not simply mistakes, lasts,
what can be forgiven is long since forgiven, the blade's cut
has also healed, only the cut made by evil
does not heal, but opens during the night, every night.
transl. by Peter Filkins