#ronald haladyna

[majestativa]

I don’t like still water nor kisses that don’t burn.

— Nancy Bacelo, Contemporary Uruguayan Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, transl by Ronald Haladyna, (2010)

[majestativa]

It’s the night of the white lilies. About ten o’clock, the flowers lightly move to and fro. Nocturnal butterflies pass with brilliant little stones on their wings and they make them kiss the flowers.

— Marosa di Giorgio, Contemporary Uruguayan Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, transl by Ronald Haladyna, (2010)

[majestativa]

We’ll open the veins of literature itself.

— Amanda Berenguer, Contemporary Uruguayan Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, transl by Ronald Haladyna, (2010)

[majestativa]

I will give [...] indifference to the indifferent.

— Mario Benedetti, Contemporary Uruguayan Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, transl by Ronald Haladyna, (2010)

[majestativa]

The perimeter of infernos of all that installs itself at night.

— Nancy Bacelo, Contemporary Uruguayan Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, transl by Ronald Haladyna, (2010)

[majestativa]

It was not longer possible to escape from poetry.

— Eduardo Milán, Contemporary Uruguayan Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, transl by Ronald Haladyna, (2010)

[majestativa]

I search for you in the castle of my body, I am an abandoned king in his palace, I am the tyrant of my muted bones. Closed up inside my body, I pursue you in my blood’s chase.

— Alfredo Fressia, Contemporary Uruguayan Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, transl by Ronald Haladyna, (2010)

[majestativa]

The most violent [...] passions of the human heart: the furies of personal interest.

— Enrique Fierro, Contemporary Uruguayan Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology, transl by Ronald Haladyna, (2010)