Text & Translation
XXI: ¿Qué es poesía?
Spanish source:
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
en mi pupila tu pupila azul.
¡Qué es poesía! ¿Y tú me lo preguntas?
Poesía... eres tú.
XXI: What is Poetry?
English translation ©
Richard Stokes & Jacqueline Cockburn
your blue gaze on my eyes.
What is poetry?! And you ask me that?
Poetry... is you.
XXI: ¿Qué es poesía?
Spanish source:
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
XXI: What is Poetry?
English source:
Richard Stokes & Jacqueline Cockburn
¿Qué es poesía?, dices mientras clavas
“What is poetry?” you ask, while you fix
en mi pupila tu pupila azul.
your blue gaze on my eyes.
¡Qué es poesía! ¿Y tú me lo preguntas?
What is poetry?! And you ask me that?
Poesía... eres tú.
Poetry... is you.
Composer
Poet
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (17 February 1836 - 22 December 1870) was a Spanish Romantic poet and writer.