{"id":28876,"date":"2023-04-06T09:23:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T13:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=28876"},"modified":"2023-04-06T09:44:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T13:44:32","slug":"machado-glory-is-never-what-ive-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=28876","title":{"rendered":"Machado: Glory is never what I&#8217;ve sought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Antonio Machado begins the 53 short &#8220;Proverbs and Songs&#8221; from <em>Fields of Castille<\/em> (1912) with one that announces his intentions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Nunca persegu\u00ed la gloria \nni dejar en la memoria \nde los hombres mi canci\u00f3n; \nyo amo los mundos sutiles, \ningr\u00e1vidos y gentiles \ncomo pompas de jab\u00f3n. \nMe gusta verlos pintarse \nde sol y grana, volar \nbajo el cielo azul, temblar \ns\u00fabitamente y quebrarse.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried an English version that is a little loose to allow unforced near-rhymes that might honor Machado&#8217;s form:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Glory is never what I've sought,\nnot to print my song in others' thought.\nI love delicate worlds, subtle\nand weightless as a soap bubble.\nI like to watch them decorate\nthemselves with sun and scarlet,\nfloat below the sky's blue,\ntremble, and--pop--they're through.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>See also: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=11183\">a poem should<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonio Machado begins the 53 short &#8220;Proverbs and Songs&#8221; from Fields of Castille (1912) with one that announces his intentions: Nunca persegu\u00ed la gloria ni dejar en la memoria de los hombres mi canci\u00f3n; yo amo los mundos sutiles, ingr\u00e1vidos y gentiles como pompas de jab\u00f3n. Me gusta verlos pintarse de sol y grana, volar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","category-uncategorized","category-verse-and-worse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28876"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28899,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28876\/revisions\/28899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}