Grook

Grook

Un grook ("gruk" en Danois) est une forme de poème bien particulière, entre l'aphorisme, l'apologue, la maxime et l'apophtegme, qui fait passer un message fort grâce à un texte court et concis.

Ce style a été inventé par le poète et scientifique Danois Piet Hein qui a écrit plus de 7000 grooks publiés dans plus de 20 volumes. Certains disent que le terme de grook (gruk) vient de "GRin & sUK" ("rire et soupir" en Danois), mais Piet Hein soutient que ce mot lui est venu d'une soudaine inspiration et n'a pas de signification particulière.

Ses premiers gruks furent d'abord publiés dans le quotidien "Politiken", le 14 avril 1940, sous le pseudonyme de Kumbel Kumbell. Ses poèmes étaient alors une forme subtile de résistance passive contre l'occupation Nazi. Il dut d'ailleurs s'exiler en 1943, et partit jusqu'en Argentine, mais ses grooks continuèrent à être publié.

Les grooks sont caractérisés par l'ironie, la satire, leur paradoxe, leur brièveté, une rigueur syntaxique et un rythme sophistiqué.


THE ROAD TO WISDOM
The road to wisdom?  Well, it's plain
and simple to express:
  Err  
  and err 
  and err again,
  but less
  and less
  and less.
— Piet Hein.

CONSOLATION GROOK
Losing one glove
is certainly painful,
but nothing 
  compared to the pain,
of losing one,
throwing away the other,
and finding 
  the first one again.
— Piet Hein.

DREAM INTERPRETATION
   Simplified.
Everything's either
concave or -vex,
so whatever you dream
will be something with sex.
— Piet Hein.

A PSYCHOLOGICAL TIP
Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,
 and you're hampered by not having any,
the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find,
 is simply by spinning a penny.
No -- not so that chance shall decide the affair
 while you're passively standing there moping;
but the moment the penny is up in the air,
 you suddenly know what you're hoping.
— Piet Hein.

MORE HASTE --
   Inscription for a monument at the crossroads.
Here lies, extinguished in his prime,
a victim of modernity:
but yesterday he hadn't the time --
and now he has eternity.
— Piet Hein.

MEETING THE EYE
You'll probably find
     that it suits your book
to be a bit cleverer
     than you look.
Observe that the easiest
     method by far
is to look a bit stupider
     than you are.
— Piet Hein.

NOTHING IS INDESPENSABLE
   Grook to warn the universe against megalomania
The universe may 
be as great as they say.
But it wouldn't be missed 
if it didn't exist.
— Piet Hein.

THE FINAL STEP
   Motto: Il n'y a que le dernier pas qui coûte.
If they made diving boards
   six inches shorter -
think how much sooner
   you'd be in the water.
— Piet Hein.

THE EGOCENTRICS
People are self-centered
to a nauseous degree.
They will keep on about themselves
while I'm explaining me.
— Piet Hein.

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