Passion For Solitude
by Cesare Pavese
I’m eating a little supper by the bright window.
The room’s already dark, the sky’s starting to turn.
Outside my door, the quiet roads lead,
after a short walk, to open fields.
Cesare Pavese was an Italian novelist who is also remembered for his poetry, short stories, and essays. Today, he is regarded as one of the most important Italian writers of the twentieth century. He described his own poetry as “an attempt to express a crust of fantastic associations” that make up one’s impressions of reality.
I’m eating a little supper by the bright window.
The room’s already dark, the sky’s starting to turn.
Outside my door, the quiet roads lead,
after a short walk, to open fields.