I went down, giving you your arm

I went down, giving you the arm: Eugenio Montale

We read with our heart this intense and touching poetry of the Nobel Prize winner Eugenio Montale.

Eugenio Montale (Genova, 12 ottobre 1896 – Milano, 12 settembre 1981) è stato un poeta, scrittore, traduttore, giornalista, critico musicale, critico letterario e pittore italiano. Tra i massimi poeti italiani del Novecento, già dalla prima raccolta Ossi di seppia (1925) fissò i termini di una poetica del negativo in … Visualizza altro

Let’s read together:

I got off, giving you your arm, at least a million stairs
And now that you’re not there, it’s the void at every step.
Even so, our long journey was short.
My still lasts, no longer do I need
coincidences, reservations,
the traps, the scorns of those who believe
that reality is what you see.
I’ve come down millions of stairs giving you my arm
Not because with four eyes, maybe you can see more.
I got them with you because I knew that of the two of us
the only true pupils, though so blurred,
They were yours.
Eugenio Montale