靜(伊亞創世歌,五絕)
厄休拉·勒吉恩作
傅正明譯
林靜催蟬語,
夜深化火蟲,
危亡釀生氣,
燦若鳳凌空。
Only in silence
At the beginning of A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin wrote an epigraph:
Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright the hawk's flight
on the empty sky.
—The Creation of Éa
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin ( 1929-) is an American author of novels, children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays.
厄休拉·勒吉恩(1929-)美國女小說家,兒童文學作家。
這首詩是勒吉恩的奇幻小說《地海巫師》(A Wizard of Earthsea)的卷首題詩, 依照小說的創世紀神話,伊亞島(Èa)是造物主 Segoy從一片汪洋中開創的第一片陸地。