The Aesthetic of Liberty
For Fatos Arapi
‘There is no other dwelling place except
here,
Watching dawn break, that is apart from
death’
Piero Bigongiari
Your words blaze with
virtuosity
In the calm air of
Vlora,
That city set upon the open
waters
Of the Adriatic Sea
With a face as loyal as a crystalline
dawn!
And it is the coherent Beauty of this
sea coast
That neither human renunciation nor
happenstance
Have been able to make any less
striking!
The bewitching music of your
verse,
Is like a lamp lit in the great
night
Of the heart’s intense
solitude!
And your soul woven with
brightness,
Is a kingdom promising great
flowering,
Winning compassion
and
Pharaonic
generosity!
You are the Illyrian
singer
Who has carved the
happiness
Of faith out of
horror
And adorned the name of your
homeland
With the words absolute and infinite!
Your writings, all
ardour,
Are continents of
light
That stand against the inconstant
darkness of our
times!...
And today you are
singing
Through these, my loving
precepts!
Friend of the
waves,
Don’t let the tears of an innocent
god
Fall upon our
wounds!
Translated from the French of Athanase Vantchev de
Thracy
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