Edna St. Vincent Millay〈愛情不是一切：不是肉也不是飲料〉與我的生活by解昆樺[詩只是我生活下去的藉口-202301-1]

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〈愛情不是一切：不是肉也不是飲料〉/默蕾（Edna St. Vincent Millay）
                                  簡政珍翻譯  
 
愛情不是一切：不是肉 也不是飲料
不是睡眠 也不是遮風擋雨的屋頂
對於在水中沉沉浮浮的人們
愛情也不是 一根漂浮的桅杆
愛不能讓增厚的肺，吸滿呼吸
不能清潔血液，也不能接好斷裂的骨頭
 
然而，就在我這麼說的時候，不少人
正在跟死亡打交道，只因為缺少愛
可能在一個艱難的時刻
因痛苦無法動彈，而呻吟求取解脫
或是因為缺乏果決 而心煩不已
 
我可能被迫賣出你的愛以求安寧
或者以這晚的回憶換取食物
這很有可能。我不認為我會這麼做
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Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink
Edna St. Vincent Millay
 (1892 –1950)
 
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution’s power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.


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