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English version by
Robert Bly

Original Language
Spanish

I Am Not I

Themes

Death

Honey

Silence

Recommended Books

	Invisible Reality, by Juan Ramon Jimenez / Translated by Antonio T. De Nicolas
	News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, Edited by Robert Bly
	Platery y yo / Platero and I, by Juan Ramon Jimenez / Translated by Antonio Frasconi
	Selected Writings of Juan Ramon Jimenez, by Juan Ramon Jimenez
	Time and Space: A Poetic Autobiography, by Juan Ramon Jimenez / Translated by Antonio T. De Nicolas

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I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and whom at other times I forget;
the one who remains silent while I talk,
the one who forgives, sweet, when I hate,
the one who takes a walk when I am indoors,
the one who will remain standing when I die.

-- from The Winged Energy of Delight, Translated by Robert Bly

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