{"id":3396,"date":"2017-12-14T17:33:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T15:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2017-12-14T17:33:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T15:33:12","slug":"the-eyes-are-the-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/the-eyes-are-the-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"THE EYES ARE THE GATES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3397 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Foto-ITHACA-509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Foto-ITHACA-509.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Foto-ITHACA-509-200x236.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THE EYES ARE THE GATES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The eyes are the gates of the mind;<br \/>\nit is better to close them, now, to be careful,]<br \/>\nnow that the day advances . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nAnd the doors of the soul . . . the ears;<br \/>\nfor prudence, too, let\u2019s close them.<br \/>\nLet\u2019s pray for the dead and for the old,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nthat they should have someone who loves them . . .<br \/>\na little bit of love, guarantor of life,<br \/>\nno need for proclamations and laws. . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Better a little fragment of life<br \/>\nthan live idiocy and vegetation and loss of mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>PATRIZIA VALDUGA<\/strong>, Italy (1953\u2013)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Translation: Germain Droogenbroodt \u2013 Stanley H. Barkan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Gli occhi sono i cancelli della mente; \/meglio chiuderli, adesso, per prudenza, \/che il giorno adesso avanza<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">indifferente&#8230;\/\/ E le porte dell\u2019anima&#8230; gli orecchi;\/chiudiamo pure loro per prudenza. \/Preghiamo per i<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">morti e per i vecchi, \/\/ perch\u00e9 abbiamo qualcuno che li ami&#8230;\/un po\u2019 d\u2019amore, garanzia di vita, \/senza<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">bisogno di leggi e proclami&#8230;\/\/ Meglio un frammento minimo di vita \/ che idiozia viva e vegeta e ammattita.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE EYES ARE THE GATES The eyes are the gates of the mind; it is better to close them, now, to be careful,] now that the day advances . . . And the doors of the soul . . . the ears; for prudence, too, let\u2019s close them. Let\u2019s pray for the dead and for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3398,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions\/3398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}