I can give you my loneliness,
my darkness, the hunger of my heart;
I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty,
with danger, with defeat.
via: Vasco Brondi, Una cosa spirituale (Einaudi, 2025) — Notizie di me
Info & reflection: offering your own darkness as a gift. Not the light, not the strength.
Attribution: Jorge Luis Borges, "Two English Poems" II (1934), written in English. Brondi quotes it in Italian without the author's name, with "sadness" where Borges wrote "loneliness".
Related in anthology
- Una cosa spirituale. Non fare niente, altre forme d'arte — Brondi quotes it in the chapter Notizie di me, the one about the woman in the Gospel: offering sadness and uncertainty instead of strength