Salvatore Quasimodo


Stock Photo: Salvatore Quasimodo reading a book. Italian poet and Nobel Prize in Literature Salvatore Quasimodo reading a book seated on a bed. Italy, 1960.










Grown DarkAnd Tall

(Tu vieni nella mia voce)


 

You arrive in my voice

and I see the quiet light

descend in shadowy rays

and make you a cloud of stars about my head.

And I suspended there, to stupefy myself with angels,

the dead, the bright arc of air.

Not mine; but within the space

re-emerged, trembling in me,

grown dark and tall.


Translation by A. S. Kline


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