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Dikt

Gösta Ågren

Dikt

Det är inte så, att dikten beskriver en tanke
som klockkedjan beskriver magen.
Ingen dikt börjar med en tanke.
Det är tanken som börjar med en dikt.

Frihet

Instängda i friheten
söker vi förtvivlat
en dörr, men alla
går att öppna.

Urtid

Rösterna finns, men
ännu är de tomma.
Ännu behövs inga ord.
Ännu har man ingenting
att dölja.

FÃ¥gel

De verkliga fåglarna
kan flyga, och har därför
inget behov av att göra det.
De saknar t.o.m. vingar.

Men
Att ha uppnått målet
kräver uthållighet


Gösta Ågren

from En dal i våldet. Poesin 1955-1985 i urval (Stockholm: Norstedts, 1990)

Reproduced by permission of the author and translators.

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Translations of this Poem

Ljóð

Translator: Thorarinn Eldjárn


Ljóð

Það er ekki svo að ljóð lýsi hugsun
eins og þegar úrfesti lýsir maga.
Ekkert ljóð hefst með hugsun.
Hugsunin hefst með ljóði.

Frelsi

Innilokuð í frelsinu
leitum við í örvæntingu að dyrum, en allar er
hægt að opna.

Frumtíð

Raddirnar eru til,
þó enn séu þær tómar.
Enn þarf engin orð.
Enn er ekkert að fela.

En

Sá sem er kominn í mark
þarf úthald.

Fugl

Raunverulegir fuglar
geta flogið og eru þess vegna
ekkert að því.
Þeir hafa jafnvel enga vængi.

Poem

Translator: David McDuff


Poem

It is not true that the poem describes an idea
as the watch-chain describes the belly.
No poem begins with an idea.
It is the idea that begins with a poem.

Freedom

Locked into freedom
we desperately seek
a door, but all
can be opened.

Prehistory

The voices are there, but
they are as yet empty.
As yet no words are needed.
As yet one has nothing
to hide.

But

To have attained the goal
requires tenacity.

from A Valley in the Midst of Violence: Selected Poems (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 1992)

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Gösta Ågrenb.1936

Gösta Ågren was born in 1936 in Ostrobothnia, the Swedish-speaking part of northern Finland. He founded an important Ostrobothnian writers’ co-operative publishing house in 1973, drawing attention to the cultural isolation of the Finland-Swedish minority. He has written over...
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