Kaarlo Sarkia

thumb|Kaarlo Sarkia Kaarlo Sarkia (11 May 1902 – 16 November 1945) was a Finnish poet and translator who was influenced by romantic poetry. His poems include motifs like childhood memories, love, landscapes and dreamworld, and in his last collection of poetry also his personal death and mankind's sufferings. Together with Uuno Kailas, Sarkia was the most prominent Finnish poet of the 1930s. As Kailas, his poetry also had homosexual themes. Quotes Vain henkäyksen verran riemus kesti,vain silmänräpäyksen tuskas syvä.Maan helmaan lempeään kuin peltoon jyvänukahdat hiljaa, uinut suloisesti.<p>Niin Kauneus, min täyden kasvun estitään elos vajavuus, nyt täydentyväon kuolemassas, muotoon ylentyväkukoistavaan ja uuteen tuhannesti.<p>Maa sinut sireenien, niinipuidensuo hautaas haparoiviin valkojuuriin,vie suonet umpuihin, ja suvikuiden.<p>tulessa kukkiin hunajaisiin, suuriinpuut puhkeaa – näin untes säteileväinsuloista täyttymystä kantaa keväin. Translation: Your joy is only moment’s exhalation,at most a blink of eye is your dejection.As sweetly falls your silent sleep’s protectionyou sink in soft earth’s breast, like wheat’s oblation.<p>Thus Beauty, whose completed germinationwas hindered by unfinished life’s perfection,will in your dying see a resurrection –a thousand-fold its great reanimation.<p>For when you’re in your grave you’re handed overto probing roots of lilac and of lime tree,to buds the sap is drawn above the clover.<p>aflame to burst in summer’s honeyed fineryof blossomed trees, and so your radiant dreamingwill sweet fulfilment find in springtime’s teeming. Lingua Fennica, Translation by Rupert Moreton External links Category:Poets from Finland Category:Translators from Finland Category:LGBT people Category:1902 births Category:1945 deaths