疯珍妮与主教交谈

叶芝

 

在路上我遇见了主教

他和我谈了许多。

“那乳房此刻干瘪而下垂，

血脉不久后必要干枯；

将住进一座天国的大厦，

而不是某处污秽的猪圈。”

 

“美好与污秽亲近如同类，

且美好需要污秽”，我嚷道。

“我的朋友们都走了，但那是坟墓

和床都无可否认的真理，

是在身体的卑贱

和心灵的骄傲中习得。”

“当一个女人意图于爱情

她可能高傲而又骄矜；

 

但爱神将他的宫殿

搭建在排泄处；

因为没有什么能成为

未经分裂的整体或唯一。” 

（李晖  译） 

 

Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop - Poem by William Butler Yeats

 

I met the Bishop on the road
And much said he and I.
'Those breasts are flat and fallen now,
Those veins must soon be dry;
Live in a heavenly mansion,
Not in some foul sty.'

'Fair and foul are near of kin,
And fair needs foul,' I cried.
'My friends are gone, but that's a truth
Nor grave nor bed denied,
Learned in bodily lowliness
And in the heart's pride.

'A woman can be proud and stiff
When on love intent;
But Love has pitched his mansion in
The place of excrement;
For nothing can be sole or whole
That has not been rent.