A Poet Reflects

March 31, 2012 with 625 notes
        tags: If There Is Something to Desire. love poetry. Vera Pavlova.
If there is something to desire If there is something to desire, there will be something to regret. If there is something to regret, there will be something to recall. If there is something to recall, there was nothing to regret. If there was nothing to regret, there is nothing to desire. —Vera Pavlova, from If There Is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, Borzoi Books, 2010). Translated from the Russian by Steven Seymour Painting: Harutyun Gulamir Khachatryan, Desire, n.d.

If there is something to desire

If there is something to desire,
there will be something to regret.
If there is something to regret,
there will be something to recall.
If there is something to recall,
there was nothing to regret.
If there was nothing to regret,
there is nothing to desire.

—Vera Pavlova, from If There Is Something to Desire: One Hundred Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, Borzoi Books, 2010).

Translated from the Russian by Steven Seymour

Painting: Harutyun Gulamir Khachatryan, Desire, n.d.

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