Sara Teasdale – Sabedoria

Quando eu cessar de fraturar minhas asas
Contra a imperfeição de todas as coisas,
E aprender que me esperam concessões
Atrás dos arduamente abertos portões,
Quando eu tiver nos olhos fitado A Vida,
Sábia, de uma maneira fria e medida,
A vida terá me ofertado A Verdade,
E tomado em troca — minha Juventude.

Trad.: Nelson Santander

Wisdom

When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things,
And learned that compromises wait
Behind each hardly opened gate,
When I have looked Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange — my youth.