This bitter, penetrating disillusionment | This bitter, penetrating disillusionment

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by Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (1881 - 1958)

Translation © by Joelle Wallach

¡Esta desilusión penetrante y amarga

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG

     ¡Esta desilusión penetrante y amarga,
 que empieza con la noche y empieza con el día!
 ¡este horror de vivir una vida tan larga,
 siendo tan corta! - ¡y quieta y dorada y vacía!

     ¡Sentir el alma llena de flor y de simiente
 y ver llegar el hielo negativo y eterno!
 ...¡y saber, sin embargo, que era capaz la frente
 de deslumbrar la tierra... y el cielo y el infierno!

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Text Authorship:

by Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (1881 - 1958), from Elejias, first published 1908-10 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Joelle Wallach (b. 1946), "¡Esta desilusión penetrante y amarga" [ vocal quartet or chorus a cappella ], from La musica, los muertos y las estrellas, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Joelle Wallach) , "This bitter, penetrating disillusionment", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 69

This bitter, penetrating disillusionment

Language: English after the Spanish (Español)

 This bitter, penetrating disillusionment
 which can begin with night or day!
 The limited mind's horror of living
 while life is so large -- and peaceful, golden yet empty!
 
 To feel the soul crying for flowers and seeds
 and to see the arrival of negative and eternal coldness!
 ... and to know nonetheless that the mind is capable
 of lighting up the earth... and the sky and the inferno!

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Based on:

a text in Spanish (Español) by Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (1881 - 1958), from Elejias, first published 1908-10
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 67