静(伊亚创世歌,五绝)
厄休拉·勒吉恩作
傅正明译
林静催蝉语,
夜深化火虫,
危亡酿生气,
灿若凤凌空。
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-)美国女小说家,儿童文学作家。
这首诗是勒吉恩的奇幻小说《地海巫师》(A Wizard of Earthsea)的卷首题诗, 依照小说的创世纪神话,伊亚岛(Èa)是造物主 Segoy从一片汪洋中开创的第一片陆地。