Exegi monumentum ~ Sunday, March 17, 2024

As I am to blame
simply as such since my birth

I enter the light

as from darkness, shame
mother, I exit your womb

to seek out my worth
of value, despite

becoming accountable
lest a marble tomb
as a monument
makes me seem for a moment
end redoubtable

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Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC

exegi monumentum aere perennius
regalique situ pyramidum altius,
quod non imber edax, non Aquilo inpotens
possit diruere…
(Odes III: XXX, lines 1-4, published 23BC)

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А.С. Пушкин

Exegi monumentum

Я памятник себе воздвиг нерукотворный

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