Màrius Sampere

Cada cor és un minut

Language: catalan

Translations: english (Every heart is a minute), german (Jedes Herz ist eine Minute)

Cada cor és un minut

Cada cor és un minut que dura
tant com una vida; cada vida,
un cor que bat durant un breu minut.
Així ens bevem els anys: en un sol glop
de llet, just el primer. Els altres vessaren.

Les passes silencioses dels núvols, el vent
que se’ls endú on la memòria cessa,
l’insecte que s’ignora llamp, el rellotge malvat
amb agulles de judici, tot això i res
no val un pam de blau de la misericòrdia
que ho permet i s’ho estima.

Però, Déu meu, a quin preu, a quin preu,
el brevíssim permís d’estimar!

Màrius Sampere

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* 28.12.1928, Barcelona, Spain
† 26.05.2018, Barcelona, Spain

Màrius Sampere was a poet, painter, composer and lyricist.

As a poet, he published numerous books, noteworthy among which are L’home i el límit (Man and Limit, 1968), Poemes en baixa freqüència (Low Frequency Poems, 1976), Recull de Blanes (The Blanes Collection, 1975), Samsara (1982), Llibre de les inauguracions (Book of Inaugurations, 1984), Demiúrgia (Demiurge, 1996), Subllum (Sublight, 2000), Les imminències (The Imminences, 2002) and Jerarquies (Hierarchies, 2003).

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He garnered the most prestigious accolades awarded to Catalan poetry, including the title of Master in the Art of Poetry at the Jocs Florals literary competition, the Creu de Sant Jordi (St. George’s Cross), the Crítica Serra d’Or Prize, the City of Barcelona Poetry Prize and the National Prize for Literature.

Also noteworthy were his advanced studies in music (he was both a composer and a lyricist) and his forays into the plastic arts as an abstract painter.

The Màrius Sampere International Award, convened by the Santa Coloma de Gramenet Town Hall, includes events surrounding the figure and work of the poet.

He penned articles, narratives, prologues and several literary contributions.

Included in different anthologies, the poetry of Màrius Sampere, at first rooted in social realism on account of the difficulty of standardising it, establishes itself in actual fact on a very physical basis, occasionally, however, metaphysical and bitingly sarcastic; at other times, profoundly human.

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