WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.570 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.570 --> 00:00:04.260 align:middle line:84% And a short poem, if I can find it here. 00:00:04.260 --> 00:00:07.427 align:middle line:90% 00:00:07.427 --> 00:00:08.885 align:middle line:84% It's called "The Secret of Poetry." 00:00:08.885 --> 00:00:12.420 align:middle line:90% 00:00:12.420 --> 00:00:15.330 align:middle line:84% "When I was lonely, I thought of death. 00:00:15.330 --> 00:00:17.980 align:middle line:84% When I thought of death, I was lonely. 00:00:17.980 --> 00:00:20.460 align:middle line:84% I suppose this era will continue. 00:00:20.460 --> 00:00:24.030 align:middle line:84% I shall enter each gray morning, delighted by frost, 00:00:24.030 --> 00:00:28.800 align:middle line:84% which is death, and the trees that stand alone, and mist. 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:30.960 align:middle line:84% When I met my wife, I was lonely. 00:00:30.960 --> 00:00:33.480 align:middle line:90% Our child in her body is lonely. 00:00:33.480 --> 00:00:36.420 align:middle line:84% I suppose this era will go on and on. 00:00:36.420 --> 00:00:39.900 align:middle line:84% Mornings-- I kiss my wife's cold lips, nights-- 00:00:39.900 --> 00:00:42.420 align:middle line:90% her body, dripping with mist. 00:00:42.420 --> 00:00:45.360 align:middle line:90% This is the era that fascinates. 00:00:45.360 --> 00:00:48.660 align:middle line:84% I suppose you are secretly lonely, thinking of death, 00:00:48.660 --> 00:00:50.160 align:middle line:90% thinking of love. 00:00:50.160 --> 00:00:52.350 align:middle line:84% I'd like, please, to leave when you're still 00:00:52.350 --> 00:00:55.830 align:middle line:84% just one cold flower, whose beauty would 00:00:55.830 --> 00:00:58.680 align:middle line:90% leave you inconsolable all day. 00:00:58.680 --> 00:01:02.090 align:middle line:84% The secret of poetry is cruelty."