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Di Umberto Saba
La giovanezza cupida di pesi porge spontanea al carico le spalle. Non regge. Piange di malinconia.
Vagabondaggio, evasione, poesia, cari prodigi sul tardi! Sul tardi l’aria si affina ed i passi si fanno leggeri. Oggi è il meglio di ieri, se non è ancora la felicità.
Assumeremo un giorno la bontà del suo volto, vedremo alcuno sciogliere come un fumo il suo inutile dolore.
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Happiness
By Umberto Saba
Youth avid for weight burdens spontaneously its shoulders. Enduring not. Weeping with melancholy.
Vagrancies, evasion, poetry, dear prodigies late in life! Late in life the air rarifies and steps fall lightly. Today is the best of yesterday, though it is not yet happiness.
We shall one day take on the bounty of its features, witness some disperse like smoke its futile pain.
Translation ©Matilda Colarossi
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Umberto Saba (Umberto Poli) was an Italian poet and novelist, born in Trieste. He is positioned alongside Eugenio Montale and Giuseppe Ungaretti as one of the three most important Italian poets of the first half of the twentieth century.
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