All you arrive at in the end
is a sad, washed-out, sandy plain,
you gaze about, take it in, bend
a wise head, nod; hope is in vain.
translated by Edwin Morgan
Attila JózsefHungarian poet 11 April 1905 — 3 December 1937 |
Without Hope (poem) |
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