'Love'

Philip Larkin

"The difficult part of love/ Is being selfish enough,/ Is having the blind persistence/ To upset an existence/ Just for your own sake."
(daqui)

mas convém deixar todo o poema de Larkin, esse inimitável hipócrita.


Love
Philip Larkin

The difficult part of love
Is being selfish enough,
Is having the blind persistence
To upset an existence
Just for your own sake.
What cheek it must take.

And then the unselfish side -
How can you be satisfied,
Putting someone else first
So that you come off worst?
My life is for me.
As well ignore gravity.

Still, vicious or virtuous,
Love suits most of us.
Only the bleeder found
Selfish this wrong way round
Is ever wholly rebuffed,
And he can get stuffed.

- -

quando se perdeu a inocência, no início da era do egoísmo e da ganância. a era do homem só.

claro que ninguém quer saber de Larkin nem daquilo que está na sua obra poética, a única coisa que espantou os media foi um poema ter vendido por não sei quantos mil.