Découverte de Philippe Jaccottet avec ce recueil de la biblio. De la nature, dite par des images différentes, picturales, dont certaines m'ont beaucoup parlé. Je crois avoir préféré les passages en prose, la présence du poète dans le paysage, ou plutôt son regard et les mots qu'il choisit. Quelques extraits :
lundi 7 novembre 2022
Cahier de verdure suivi de Après beaucoup d'années


lundi 19 septembre 2022
Encore Dickinson
375
The Angle
of a Landscape -
That every
time I wake -
Between my
Curtain and the Wall
Upon an
ample Crack -
Like a
Venetian - waiting -
Accosts my
open eye -
Is just a
Bough of Apples -
Held
slanting, in the Sky -
The Pattern
of a Chimney -
The Forehead
of a Hill -
Sometimes -
a Vane's Forefinger -
But that's
- Occasional -
The Seasons
- shift - my Picture -
Upon my
Emerald Bough,
I wake - to
find no - Emeralds -
Then -
Diamonds - which the Snow
From Polar
Caskets - fetched me -
The Chimney
- and the Hill -
And just
the Steeple's finger -
These never
stir at all -
376
Of Course -
I prayed -
And did God
Care?
He cared as
much as on the Air
A Bird -
had stamped her foot -
And cried
"Give Me" -
My Reason -
Life -
I had not
had - but for Yourself -
'Twere
better Charity
To leave me
in the Atom's Tomb -
Merry, and
Nought, and gay, and numb -
Than this
smart Misery.
393
Did Our Best Moment last -
'Twould supersede the Heaven -
A few - and they by Risk - procure -
So this Sort - are not given -
Except as stimulants - in
Cases of Despair -
Or Stupor - The Reserve -
These Heavenly Moments are -
A Grant of the Divine -
That Certain as it Comes -
Withdraws - and leaves the dazzled Soul
In her unfurnished Rooms
396
There is a
Languor of the Life
More
imminent than Pain -
'Tis Pain's
Successor - When the Soul
Has
suffered all it can -
A Drowsiness
- diffuses -
A Dimness
like a Fog
Envelops
Consciousness -
As Mists -
obliterate a Crag.
The Surgeon
- does not blanch - at pain
His Habit -
is severe -
But tell
him that it ceased to feel -
The
Creature lying there -
And he will
tell you - skill is late -
A Mightier
than He -
Has
ministered before Him -
There's no
Vitality.
410
The first
Day's Night had come -
And
grateful that a thing
So terrible
- had been endured -
I told my
Soul to sing -
She said
her Strings were snapt -
Her Bow -
to Atoms blown -
And so to
mend her - gave me work
Until
another Morn -
And then -
a Day as huge
As
Yesterdays in pairs,
Unrolled
its horror in my face -
Until it
blocked my eyes -
My Brain -
begun to laugh -
I mumbled -
like a fool -
And tho'
'tis Years ago - that Day -
My Brain
keeps giggling - still.
And
Something's odd - within -
That person
that I was -
And this
One - do not feel the same -
Could it be
Madness - this?
411
The Color
of the Grave is Green –
The Outer
Grave - I mean -
You would
not know it from the Field -
Except it
own a Stone -
To help the
fond - to find it -
Too
infinite asleep
To stop and
tell them where it is -
But just a
Daisy - deep -
The Color
of the Grave is white -
The outer
Grave - I mean -
You would
not know it from the Drifts -
In Winter -
till the Sun -
Has furrowed out the Aisles -
Then -
higher than the Land
The little
Dwelling Houses rise
Where each
- has left a friend -
The Color
of the Grave within -
The
Duplicate - I mean -
Not all the
Snows could make it white -
Not all the
Summers - Green -
You've seen
the Color - maybe -
Upon a
Bonnet bound -
When that
you met it with before -
The Ferret
- cannot find -
423
The Months
have ends - the Years - a knot -
No Power
can untie
To stretch
a little further
A Skein of
Misery -
The Earth
lays back these tired lives
In her
mysterious Drawers -
Too
tenderly, that any doubt
An ultimate
Repose -
The manner
of the Children -
Who weary
of the Day -
Themself -
the noisy Plaything
They cannot
put away –
442
God made a
little Gentian -
It tried -
to be a Rose -
And failed
- and all the Summer laughed -
But just
before the Snows
There rose
a Purple Creature -
That
ravished all the Hill -
And Summer
hid her Forehead -
And Mockery
- was still -
The Frosts
were her condition -
The Tyrian
would not come
Until the
North - invoke it -
Creator -
Shall I - bloom?
443
I tie my
Hat - I crease my Shawl -
Life's
little duties do - precisely -
As the very
least
Were
infinite - to me -
I put new
Blossoms in the Glass -
And throw
the old - away -
I push a
petal from my Gown
That
anchored there - I weigh
The time
'twill be till six o'clock
I have so
much to do -
And yet -
Existence - some way back -
Stopped--
struck - my tickling - through -
We cannot
put Ourself away
As a
completed Man
Or Woman -
When the Errand's done
We came to
Flesh - upon -
There may be
- Miles on Miles of Nought -
Of Action -
sicker far -
To simulate
- is stinging work -
To cover
what we are
From
Science - and from Surgery -
Too
Telescopic Eyes
To bear on
us unshaded -
For their –
sake - not for Our’s -
'Twould
start them -
We - could
tremble -
But since
we got a Bomb -
And held it
in our Bosom -
Nay - Hold
it - it is calm -
Therefore -
we do life's labor -
Though
life's Reward - be done -
With
scrupulous exactness -
To hold our
Senses - on -
480
"Why do I love" You, Sir?
Because -
The Wind does not require the Grass
To answer - Wherefore when He pass
She cannot keep Her place.
Because He knows - and
Do not You -
And We know not -
Enough for Us
The Wisdom it be so -
The Lightning - never asked an Eye
Wherefore it shut - when He was by -
Because He knows it cannot speak -
And reasons not contained -
- Of Talk -
There be - preferred by Daintier Folk -
The Sunrise - Sire - compelleth Me -
Because He's Sunrise - and I see -
Therefore - Then -
I love Thee -
lundi 11 juillet 2022
Le huitième jour de la semaine
« Qu’est-ce donc que la vie ordinaire, celle où nous sommes sans y être ? C’est une langue sans désir, un temps sans merveille. C’est une chose douce comme un mensonge. Je connais bien cet état. J’en sais – tiré par le cœur – la banalité et la violence. L’âme y est comme une ruche vidée de ses abeilles. »« Au fond, si la vérité nous fait parfois défaut, c’est parce que nous avons commencé à lui manquer, en prétendant la régenter et la connaître. »« Les grandes décisions se prennent dès l’enfance, celles qui orientent le cours des astres et l’allure des songes. Elles naissent de tout et de rien. Elles naissent de l’indigence soudainement révélée du tout de la vie. A sept ans, l’âme est déjà menée à son terme, enroulée sur sa propre absence, comme les pétales d’une rose amoureusement repliés sur le vide en leur centre. »« Nous manquons à notre vie. Nous manquons à tout. L’étrange est au fond que la grâce nous atteigne, quand tous nos efforts tendent à nous rendre inaccessibles. »« Il faut encore vouloir ce que l’on aime, et il faut le vouloir d’une volonté profonde, pure de toute impatience, comme obscure à elle-même. Un désir trop brutal menacerait les puissances qui sont en nous tout aussi surement qu’un trop long oubli. »
« Vous portez à son incandescence une vertu partagée par toutes les femmes de ne jamais rien céder aux vains prestiges des êtres. Il y a une joie dans le monde. Il y a une jouie élémentaire de l’univers, que l’on assombrit chaque fois que l’on prétend être quelqu’un ou savoir quelque chose. »


jeudi 12 mai 2022
Poèmes d'Emily Dickinson
674
The Soul that hath a Guest
Doth seldom go abroad -
Diviner Crowd at Home,
Obliterate the need -
And Courtesy forbids
A Host's departure when
Upon Himself - be visiting
The Mightiest - of Men -
683
The Soul
unto itself
Is an
imperial friend -
Or the most
agonizing Spy -
An Enemy -
could send -
Secure
against its own -
No treason
it can fear -
Itself -
its Sovereign - of itself
The Soul
should stand in Awe -
709
Publication
- is the Auction
Of the Mind
of Man -
Poverty -
be justifying
For so foul
a thing
Possibly -
but We - would rather
From Our
Garret go
White -
Unto the White Creator -
Than invest
- Our Snow -
Thought
belong to Him who gave it -
Then - to
Him Who bear
Its
Corporeal illustration - Sell
The Royal
Air -
In the
Parcel - Be the Merchant
Of the
Heavenly Grace -
But reduce
no Human Spirit
To Disgrace
of Price –
750
Growth
of Man - like Growth of Nature -
Gravitates
within -
Atmosphere,
and Sun endorse it -
Bit it stir
- alone -
Each - its
difficult Ideal
Must
achieve - Itself -
Through the
solitary prowess
Of a Silent
Life -
Effort - is
the sole condition -
Patience of
Itself -
Patience of
opposing forces -
And intact
Belief -
Looking on
- is the Department
Of its
Audience -
But
Transaction - is assisted
By no
Countenance -
751
My
Worthiness is all my Doubt -
His Merit -
all my fear -
Contrasting
which, my quality
Do lowlier
- appear -
Lest I
should insufficient prove
For His
beloved Need -
The
Chiefest Apprehension
Upon my
thronging Mind -
'Tis true -
that Deity to stoop
Inherently
incline -
For nothing
higher than Itself
Itself can
rest upon -
So I - the
undivine abode
Of His
Elect Content -
Conform my
Soul - as 'twere a Church,
Unto Her
Sacrament -
752
So the Eyes
accost - and sunder
In an
Audience -
Stamped -
occasionally - forever -
So may
Countenance
Entertain -
without addressing
Countenance
of One
In a
Neighboring Horizon -
Gone - as
soon as known -
779
The Service without Hope -
Is tenderest, I think -
Because 'tis unsustained
By stint - Rewarded Work -
Has impetus of Gain -
And impetus of Goal -
There is no Diligence like that
That knows not an Until -
781
To wait an Hour - is long -
If Love be just beyond -
To wait Eternity - is short -
If Love reward the end -
794
A Drop Fell
on the Apple Tree -
Another -
on the Roof -
A Half a
Dozen kissed the Eaves -
And made
the Gables laugh -
A few went
out to help the Brook
That went
to help the Sea -
Myself
Conjectured were they Pearls -
What
Necklace could be -
The Dust
replaced, in Hoisted Roads -
The Birds
jocoser sung -
The
Sunshine threw his Hat away -
The Bushes
- spangles flung -
The Breezes
brought dejected Lutes -
And bathed
them in the Glee -
Then Orient
showed a single Flag,
And signed
the Fete away -
795
Her final
Summer was it -
And yet We
guessed it not -
If tenderer
industriousness
Pervaded
Her, We thought
A further
force of life
Developed
from within -
When Death
lit all the shortness up
It made the
hurry plain -
We wondered
at our blindness
When
nothing was to see
But Her
Carrara Guide post -
At Our
Stupidity -
When duller
than our dullness
The Busy
Darling lay -
So busy was
she - finishing -
So
leisurely - were We -
799
Despair's
advantage is achieved
By
suffering - Despair -
To be
assisted of Reverse
One must
Reverse have bore -
The
Worthiness of Suffering like
The
Worthiness of Death
Is
ascertained by tasting -
As can no
other Mouth
Of Savors -
make us conscious -
As did
ourselves partake -
Affliction
feels impalpable
Until
Ourselves are struck -
1725
I took one
Draught of Life -
I'll tell
you what I paid -
Precisely
an existence -
The market
price, they said.
They
weighed me, Dust by Dust -
They
balanced Film with Film,
Then handed
me my Being's worth -
A single
Dram of Heaven!
1739
Some say
goodnight - at night -
I say
goodnight by day -
Good-bye -
the Going utter me -
Goodnight,
I still reply -
For
parting, that is night,
And
presence, simply dawn -
Itself, the
purple on the height
Denominated morn.
lundi 11 avril 2022
Le Livre des anges suivi de La Nuit spirituelle et de Carnet d'une allumeuse
Est-ce parce j'avais croisé son nom dans un ouvrage de Bobin ? ou justement parce qu'il préface ce livre ? Toujours est-il que je l'ai pris pour caution de cet ouvrage dont je sors plutôt déçue et sceptique. Je me suis rendu compte, après l'achat, que Lydie était la compagne de Christian.
Comme souvent, j'ai noté des poèmes, que j'ai appréciés. Surtout dans Carnet d'une allumeuse que j'ai trouvé beau et percutant. Les autres recueils m'ont beaucoup moins plus. Le premier pace que j'ai cru lire sans cesse le même poème, au sujet d'anges, de lys et de beauté. Le second parce qu'elle y place la femme dans une relation hiérarchique à l'homme, qu'elle se plaint de son imperfection, de ses limites, notamment dans la création. Voilà qui ne peut que me faire bondir !
Place à quelques extraits choisis du Livre des anges, que je garde pour les relire. Mais je ne crois pas aller vers d'autres de ses œuvres.
Tout est plus merveilleuxTout est plus merveilleux que ce que je croyais :
quiconque a recherché ton amour l'a trouvé.
Ton âme défiait la beauté des étoiles
quand ton cœur acceptait de souffrir avec moi.
Je n'osais comparer mon cœur avec le tien.
Le bonheur a été notre unique témoin.
La mort ne pourra pas m'empêcher de t'aimer
pourvu qu'à travers moi tu chérisses l’azur.
Je n'oublierai jamais l'amour que j'ai pour toi.
Tu ne peux pas mourir puisque je t'aime encore.
Je te mépriserais si tu croyais la mort.


lundi 7 mars 2022
Le pays derrière les larmes
Avec ce recueil de poésies choisies, j'ai plongé dans le monde de Jean-Pierre Lemaire. Un monde imprégné du soleil, celui de l'Italie, de Menton, celui de l'enfance. Un monde chrétien aussi avec ses passages évangéliques, ses rosaires, ses miracles. Un monde où les mots semblent simples et accessibles mais renferment un sens secret, un sens à découvrir.
J'en ai aimé beaucoup, je vous livre ces poèmes :


jeudi 10 février 2022
D'autres poèmes de Dickinson
7
The feet of
people walking home
With gayer
sandals go—
The Crocus—
till she rises
The Vassal
of the snow—
The lips at
Hallelujah
Long years
of practise bore
Till bye
and bye these Bargemen
Walked
singing on the shore.
Pearls are
the Diver's farthings
Extorted
from the Sea—
Pinions—
the Seraph's wagon
Pedestrian
once— as we—
Night is
the morning's Canvas
Larceny—
legacy—
Death, but
our rapt attention
To
Immortality.
My figures
fail to tell me
How far the
Village lies—
Whose
peasants are the Angels—
Whose
Cantons dot the skies—
My Classics
veil their faces—
My faith
that Dark adores—
Which from
its solemn abbeys
Such
resurrection pours.
254
“Hope” is
the thing with feathers -
That
perches in the soul -
And sings
the tune without the words -
And never
stops - at all -
And
sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore
must be the storm -
That could
abash the little Bird -
That kept
so many warm -
I've heard
it in the chillest land -
And on the
strangest Sea -
Yet, never,
in Extremity,
It asked a
crumb - of Me.
271
A solemn
thing—it was—I said—
A Woman—white—to
be—
And wear—if
God should count me fit—
Her
blameless mystery—
A hallowed
thing—to drop a life
Into the mystic
well—
Too
plummetless—that it come back—
Eternity—until—
I pondered
how the bliss would look—
And would
it feel as big—
When I
could take it in my hand—
As
hovering—seen—through fog—
And
then—the size of this "small" life—
The
Sages—call it small—
Swelled—like
Horizons—in my breast—
And I
sneered—softly—"small"!
279
Tie the
Strings to my Life, My Lord,
Then, I am
ready to go!
Just a look
at the Horses -
Rapid! That
will do!
Put me in
on the firmest side -
So I shall
never fall -
For we must
ride to the Judgment -
And it's
partly, down Hill -
But never I
mind the steepest -
And never I
mind the Sea -
Held fast
in Everlasting Race -
By my own
Choice, and Thee -
Goodbye to
the Life I used to live -
And the
World I used to know -
And kiss
the Hills, for me, just once -
Then - I am
ready to go!
315
He fumbles
at your Soul
As Players
at the Keys -
Before they
drop full Music on -
He stuns
you by degrees -
Prepares
your brittle substance
For the
etherial Blow
By fainter
Hammers - further heard -
Then nearer
- then so - slow -
Your Breath
- has chance to straighten -
Your Brain
- to bubble Cool -
Deals One –
imperial Thunderbolt -
That peels
your naked Soul -
When Winds holds
Forests in their Paws -
The
Firmaments - are still –
321
Of all the
Sounds despatched abroad-
There's not
a Charge to me
Like that
old measure in the Boughs
That
Phraseless Melody-
The Wind
does- working like a Hand -
Whose
fingers brush the sky-
Then quiver
down, with Tufts of Tune-
Permitted
Men-and Me-
lnheritance
it is -to Us
Beyond the
Art to Earn-
Beyond the
trait to take away-
By Robber -
Since the Gain
Is gotten
not of fingers,
And inner
than the Bone-
Hid golden-
for the whole of days-
And even in
the Urn-
I cannot
vouch the merry Dust
Do not
arise and play-
In some odd
fashion of it's own-
Some
quainter Holiday.
When Winds
go round and round, in Bands-
And thrum
upon the Door-
And Birds
take places- Overhead -
To bear
them Orchestra-
I crave him
Grace- of Summer Boughs-
lf such an
Outcast be-
Who never
heard that fleshless Chant
Rise solemn,
in the Tree-
As if some
Caravan of Sound-
On Deserts,
in the Sky-
Had broken
Rank-
Then knit -and
passed -
In Seamless
Company-
327
Before I
got my eye put out -
I liked as
well to see
As other
creatures, that have eyes -
And know no
other way -
But were it
told to me - Today -
That I
might have the Sky
For mine -
I tell you that my Heart
Would
split, for size of me -
The Meadows
- mine -
The
Mountains- mine -
All Forests
- Stintless Stars -
As much of
Noon as I could take
Between my
finite eyes -
The Motions
of the Dipping Birds -
The
Morning's Amber Road -
For mine -
to look at when I liked -
The News
would strike me dead -
So safer -
guess - with just my soul
Upon the
window pane
Where other
creatures put their eyes -
Incautious
- of the Sun –
341
After great
pain, a formal feeling comes -
The Nerves
sit ceremonious, like Tombs -
The stiff
Heart questions was it He, that bore,
And
Yesterday, or Centuries before?
The Feet,
mechanical, go round -
Of Ground,
or Air, or Ought -
A Wooden
way
Regardless
grown,
A Quartz
contentment, like a stone -
This is the
Hour of Lead -
Remembered,
if outlived,
As Freezing
persons, recollect the Snow -
First -
Chill - then Stupor - then the letting go -
352
Perhaps I
asked too large -
I take - no
less than skies -
For Earths,
grow thick as
Berries, in
my native town -
My Basked
holds - just - Firmaments --
Those -
dangle easy - on my arm,
But smaller
bundles - Cram.
353
A happy lip
— breaks sudden —
It doesn't
state you how
It contemplated
— smiling —
Just
consummated — now —
But this
one, wears its merriment
So patient
— like a pain —
Fresh
gilded — to elude the eyes
Unqualified,
to scan —