Thank-You Note d WislawaSzymborska d I owe so much to those I don‘t love. The relief as I agree that some one else needs them more. The happiness that I‘m not the wolf to their sheep. d The peace I feel with them, the freedom – love can neither give nor take that. I don‘t wait for them, as in window-to-door-and-back. Almost as patient as a sundial, I understand what love can‘t, and forgive as love never would. d From a rendezvous to a letter is just a few days or weeks, not an eternity. d Trips with them always go smoothly, concerts are heard, cathedrals visited, scenery is seen. d And when seven hills and rivers come between us, the hills and rivers can be found on any map. d They desserve the credit if I live in three dimensions, in nonlyrical and nonrhetorical space with a genuine, shifting horizon. d They themselves don‘t realize how much they hold in their empty hands. "I don‘t owe them a thing," would be love‘s answer to this open question. d Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh The best literal Portuguese language version for the verses "I don‘t wait for them,/as in window-to-door-and-back" is the alternative:

Eu não espero por eles, em nenhum momento, olhando pela janela.

Eu não espero por eles andando da janela até à porta.

Eu não tenho que esperar por eles saindo na porta e, em seguida, olhando pela janela.

Eu não tenho a obrigação de esperar por eles olhando pela janela e saindo até a porta.

Questão 2731355 de Língua Inglesa - ITAME 2020

Questão

ID 2731355

Disciplina: Língua Inglesa

Assunto: Tradução | Translation

Ano: 2020 Banca: ITAME - Instituto de Consultoria e Concursos Órgão: Prefeitura Municipal de Santa Bárbara de Goiás

Thank-You Note

WislawaSzymborska

I owe so much

to those I don‘t love.

The relief as I agree

that some one else needs them more.

The happiness that I‘m not

the wolf to their sheep.

The peace I feel with them,

the freedom –

love can neither give

nor take that.

I don‘t wait for them,

as in window-to-door-and-back.

Almost as patient

as a sundial,

I understand

what love can‘t,

and forgive

as love never would.

From a rendezvous to a letter

is just a few days or weeks,

not an eternity.

Trips with them always go smoothly,

concerts are heard,

cathedrals visited,

scenery is seen.

And when seven hills and rivers

come between us,

the hills and rivers

can be found on any map.

They desserve the credit

if I live in three dimensions,

in nonlyrical and nonrhetorical space

with a genuine, shifting horizon.

They themselves don‘t realize

how much they hold in their empty hands.

"I don‘t owe them a thing,"

would be love‘s answer

to this open question.

Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh

The best literal Portuguese language version for the verses "I don‘t wait for them,/as in window-to-door-and-back" is the alternative:

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