Le désir d’agir chante son pareil quand les choses Se lient, équivalentes ; et le temps de travail figé Mesure la valeur d’usage ; travail abstrait où le produit Ne se compare au matériau, où les nuances confondues Cachent aux yeux de tous leur usage premier. Et si les choses étaient des mots, elles diraient : Le Jour est Pareil à la Nuit, pareil à nous, mais selon nos bons maîtres Dans l’échange figure à peine l’usage des choses, Tout s’achète pour être vendu et la valeur dispose. C’est à bon droit que nous fuyons qui nous a faites Quand on s’empresse de…
In my city one wished me death, Nevermind, The stars last more than one night – The hidden so disposes imagination, And so the body to take on a nature Opposed it seems to itself, of which no idea Can be given the mind, but that a man Out of need of his nature should try not to exist Or appear changed Is as impossible As for any thing to be made out of nothing, This everyone with a little reflection May see : Anyone can kill himself, compelled by some other Who twists his right hand Which holds perhaps…
As Baruch said accursed, nevermind blest – Since men would rather imagine than understand And chance is imperfect knowledge And body exists as we feel it And essence is that remove, that degree, without which a thing is no thing (Defined is defined) And nothing happens in the body That is not perceived by the mind The mind also conceives by its power – A contents that is as in the song « sweet content. » Since no one cares about anything he does not love And love is pleasure that dwells on its cause He who loves keeps what he loves :…
Or : remember, G. S. begins « Making of Americans » With a quote From Nicomachus’ father – With patient father and angry son – That she said, « How can you know More than you do know And we are still in the shadow of explanation, » Add to her insight (« in all periods before Things had been said But never explained. So then they began to explain ») Long before « before » Too, they had explained a long time. Louis Zukofsky A12 « A » University of California Press 1978 168–169…