Rúfus, Milan: Beauty (Krása in English)

Krása (Slovak)

Kto povie, prečo
si bojovníci maľovali štíty.

Kto povie kráse,
jak hlboko je v nás?

„Tak hlboko,
tak hlboko, že smrť
plašíme tebou ako kohútom.

Neopúšťaj vo svete, zamknutom
na všetky štyri strany, básnika.

Neukazuj mu straku na kole.
Hniezdočko reči, plné lesklého...“

Smutno je s ním, smutno je bez neho.

Source of the quotation	Milan Rúfus - Básne

Beauty (English)

Who can tell why
the warriors painted their shields?

Who can tell beauty
how deep it is in us?

- So deep,
so deep that we scare death with you
as with a cockerel.

In our world locked in from all sides
don’t abandon the poet.
Don’t show him the magpie on a wheel.
A little nest of talk, full of a glittering...

There’s sadness with him and sadness without him.

Osers, Ewald

Source of the quotation

Sister Hope. Poems in Eglish