Here is a translation of my favorite poem. Submitted by Peggy Burge<\/p>\n
Silentium!<\/strong> Be silent, guard your tongue, and keep How can the soul its flame impart? Make but the inward life your goal – First published 2010 in John Dewey’s Mirror of the Soul – A Life of the Poet Fyodor Tyutchev, which also contains Dewey’s verse translations of nearly 100 of Tyutchev’s best poems<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here is a translation of my favorite poem. Submitted by Peggy Burge Silentium! Fyodor Tyutchev’s poem, translated by John Dewey Be silent, guard your tongue, and keep All inmost thoughts and feelings deep Within your heart concealed. There let Them … Continue reading
\nFyodor Tyutchev’s poem, translated by John Dewey<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAll inmost thoughts and feelings deep
\nWithin your heart concealed. There let
\nThem in their courses rise and set,
\nLike stars in jewelled night, unheard:
\nAdmire them, and say not a word.<\/p>\n
\nHow can another know your heart,
\nThe truths by which you live and die?
\nA thought, once uttered, is a lie,
\nThe limpid spring defiled, once stirred:
\nDrink of it, and say not a word.<\/p>\n
\nSeek out that world within your soul:
\nMysterious, magic thoughts are there,
\nWhich, if the outer din and glare
\nIntrude, will fade and be not heard:
\nDrink in their song – and not a word!<\/p>\n