"Existence has a stated width"
Larkin, Dickinson, Glazova, Buson, Roca
Philip Larkin:
Emily Dickinson:
The Day she goes / Or Day she stays / Are equally supreme— / Existence has a stated width / Departed, or at Home— / Emily
Anna Glazova (tr. from Russian by Anna Khasin):
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Yosa Buson (tr. from Japanese by R.H. Blyth):
Juan Manuel Roca (tr. from Spanish by Raúl Jaime Gaviria):
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