Manuel Altolaguirre: "Loneliness Without Oblivion"

"What a sadness this of today! 
To have said everything,
pouring unabatedly
that which weighed so much,
and see then that everything
stays inside nonetheless,
that the words were
deceiving mirrors,
glasses inhabited
by breathless ghosts;
that everything stays inside
with its dark presences,
insistent, hurting."

(to my favourite priest, who discovered to me this magnificient poet, 

perhaps one of the best spanish poets ever)

"¡Qué pena ésta de hoy!
Haberlo dicho todo,
volcando por completo
lo que pesaba tanto,
y ver luego que todo
se queda siempre dentro,
que las palabras fueron
espejos engañosos,
cristales habitados
por fantasmas sin vida;
que todo queda dentro
con sus negras presencias,
insistentes, doliendo."