Giuseppi Ungaretti

11 Maggio 1912: Marinetti e il Manifesto della Letteratura Futurista

Italy

 I am a poet, a unanimous 

cry, am 
a cleat of dreams 

a fruit 
of innumerable conflicting grafts 
ripened in the hothouse 

But the same earth bears 
your people 
as carries me 

Italy 

In this, the uniform 
of your soldier, I rest 
as if 
it were the cradle 
of my father 

Cease murdering the dead. 
If you hope not to perish, if you 
Want sound of them again, 
Stop crying out, cease 
The crying out of it. 

They have a barely heard whispering, 
No more than the increase of grass, 
Happy where no man passes.

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