Poet Monologue from By Federico MoreTranslated from the Spanish

From By Federico MoreTranslated from the Spanish by Audrey Alden.

any · defiant · 48 sec

I shall tell you. It is not in high-born taste To trifle with a heart. The love of a marquise is the problematic Love of elegance and froth, And like other love a sort of mathematic Love of addition, subtraction and division. It is not rude passion, fierce, emphatic, Song and orchestral counterpoint of life. It is what the world would name platonic, Love without fire, without virility, With nothing of creation, nothing tonic, One-step love, love of society. And I will have none of this love sardonic, None of its desperate futility.

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