what are we moving towards?
sorenbarrett said:

There is a feel of damned if you do and damned if you don\'t in this write. The feel I get is to do as you wish because in the end it won\'t matter either way. A rather nihilistic sense to this poem. Well written

September 28th, 2025 03:53

meningslösheter och slit
arqios said:

Is this an adequate translation?

“meaninglessnesses and toil.”

Yeats once asked: “What have I gained for all my toil,
for all I have done in my own cause?”
My answer: nothing. Though I laboured hard, and blindly,
I never placed my soul within the work. So truly, I have done nothing.
I followed my father’s shadow, too fond of the bottle,
forgetting at times that the pen is mine. Yet this is not his fault—
this is the choice I made.


September 26th, 2025 06:20