"El guitarrista ciego" de Pablo Picasso
Inclinado sobre su guitarra - como Átropos, la parca, a sus tijeras-, el hombre.
El día es verde.
Dijeron: - Tu guitarra es azul y las cosas, tal como son,
nunca con ella expresar puedes.
Y el hombre respondió: - Tal como son las cosas,
en sueño mi guitarra de su color las vuelve.
"El hombre con la guitarra azul" de Wallace Stevens
I
The man
bent over his guitar,
A shearsman
of sorts. The day was green.
They said,
"You have a blue guitar,
You do not
play things as they are."
The man
replied, "Things as they are
Are changed
upon the blue guitar."
And they
said then, "But play, you must,
A tune
beyond us, yet ourselves,
A tune upon
the blue guitar
Of things
exactly as they are."
"The Man with the Blue Guitar"
(excerpt), by Wallace Stevens
