(excerpt from) moral proverbs and folk songs by Antonio Machado

Written By Sharon Singer
 
It is good knowing that glasses
are to drink from;
the bad thing is not to know
what thirst is for.

From Robert Bly’s translation, TIMES ALONE, Selected Poems 
of Antonio Machado, Wesleyan University Press, (1983)
Sharon Singer
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