Author: Domingo Zapata
Cites
- de la Barca, Pedro Calderón (1)
- IN: Beautiful Dream Life (2017) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: The king dreams he is a king,
And in this delusive way
Lives and rules with sovereign sway;
All the cheers that round him ring,
Born of air, on air take wing.
And in ashes (mournful fate!)
Death dissolves his pride and state:
Who would wish a crown to take,
Seeing that he must awake
In the dream beyond death's gate?...
'Tis a dream that I in sadness
Here am bound, the scorn of fate;
'Twas a dream that once a state
I enjoyed a light and gladness.
What is life? 'Tis but a madness.
What is life? A thing that seems,
A mirage that falsely gleams,
Phantom joy, delusive rest,
Since is life a dream at best,
And even dreams themselves are dreams.
FROM: Life is a Dream (trans. by Edward Fitzgerald), (1635), NULL, Spain