VES SVET JE KAKOR

Die graue Welt

is blau und grün.

Ves svet je kakor

v modrino potopljen,
ves svet je
moder in zelen.

Jaz sem smehljajoča se luč

novemu življenju.
jaz ne poznam starih
in mladih,
vse je v meni.
Stari in mladi,
Vse je v meni
Z enim obrazom.
(V sinjem lesketu
od tihe pomladi.)
Živeti, živeti!

Srečko Kosovel (1904-1926)

AS IF THE WHOLE WORLD

The grey world
is blue and green.

The whole world is as if

sunk into blueness,
the whole world is
blue and green.

I am the smiling light

to new life.
I do not distinguish the old
from the young,
all are in me.
The old and the young,
all of them are in me
with the one face.
(In the sapphire glimmer
of a still spring.)
To live, to live!

Srečko Kosovel (1904-1926)