<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589721" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Enigma of the closed books [Enigma cărţilor închise]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Immaculate fair pages written by hands on which the humble time has placed<br>Its everlasting emblems with much haste!<br>O, thoughts withered in closed books<br>O, cold deeps opened in paradises with good looks<br>O, written dreams flowing like brooks!<br>There are mournful books whose mystic thrills<br>As light as quills<br>Garland any dumb disaster <br>With horizons blue or pale like alabaster,<br>Inoculating deeply the nightly statues with gestures mirrored <br>By the lakes full of mystery<br>And tranquility. <br>There are books in mourning<br>Full of tanned longing,<br>There are books whose chants full of gloom<br>Wake up and stir the pangs in the royal tomb...<br>When the doleful rhythm of the ballads without sound<br>Resurrects, vibrates, contemplates and falls to the ground<br>Or in the waterfalls around<br>The pale dreams will retire in nooks.<br>O, the eerie enigma of the closed books!...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Top%C3%AErceanu">George Topîrceanu</a>, translated by Octavian Cocoş<div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589721" data-title="Enigma of the closed books [Enigma cărţilor închise] de George Topîrceanu" data-description="Immaculate fair pages written by hands on which the humble time has placed/Its everlasting emblems with much haste!/O, thoughts withered in closed books/O, cold deeps opened in paradises with good looks/O, written dreams flowing like brooks!/There..."></div> </div> </div>

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