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hours lived, but not measured.

English translation: time was spent but not taken into account, just experienced

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English term or phrase:hours lived, but not measured.
Selected answer:time was spent but not taken into account, just experienced
Entered by: airmailrpl

15:32 Apr 18, 2004
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: hours lived, but not measured.
In the following poem, what does the phrase "hours lived but not measured" mean?

Blue space beginning,
music of the infinite,
music in the light of the soul
of full existence.
The horizon is the poetry
of plenitude
and joyfulness.
Tender body,
brave and lean,
of real time:
hours lived, but not measured.
Live experience, vibration of life
intensely small, intensely much.
Nuances of heat are felt.
The blue-green emerald,
plush peach,
a rainy indigo morning.
Color of love!

Thank you in advance.
Mitsuko
Local time: 10:04
time was spent but not taken into account, just experienced
Explanation:
time was spent but not taken into account, just experienced
Selected response from:

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 22:04
Grading comment
Thank you very much uchairmailrpl.
Thank you everyone.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
5 +9time was spent but not taken into account, just experienced
airmailrpl
5 +3not considered carefully
Alfa Trans (X)
5 +1The flow of time
Craft.Content
4 +1it seems to carry the meaning of....
DGK T-I
5Hours that he(she) spent mindlessly
humbird


  

Answers


4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +9
time was spent but not taken into account, just experienced


Explanation:
time was spent but not taken into account, just experienced

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 22:04
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 64
Grading comment
Thank you very much uchairmailrpl.
Thank you everyone.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Hacene
20 mins
  -> thank you
agree  NancyLynn: yes, without thought given to their meaning
1 hr
  -> thank you
agree  Java Cafe
1 hr
  -> thank you
agree  DGK T-I
3 hrs
  -> thank you
agree  Luiza M. Charles de Oliveira
3 hrs
  -> thank you
agree  ben baudoin
5 hrs
  -> thank you
agree  Vicky Papaprodromou
12 hrs
  -> thank you
agree  Begoña Yañez: yep, agree with NancyLynn as well.
14 hrs
  -> thank you
agree  Liesbeth Huijer
14 hrs
  -> thank you
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
not considered carefully


Explanation:
hours lived, but not weighed, i.e. their meaning not considered carefully

Alfa Trans (X)
Local time: 04:04
Native speaker of: Finnish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  NancyLynn: yes, without thought given to their meaning
1 hr
  -> thank you, NancyLynn!
agree  DGK T-I
3 hrs
  -> thank you, Giuli!
agree  Vicky Papaprodromou
12 hrs
  -> Kalimera kai efharisto poli, Vicky! Na ise kala.
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
it seems to carry the meaning of....


Explanation:
hours which have been experienced and lived intensely,
not just counted as they go by, but "really" lived.


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Note added at 11 mins (2004-04-18 15:44:07 GMT)
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the opposite of letting life and time go by, without in truth using the time to live...

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Note added at 14 mins (2004-04-18 15:46:49 GMT)
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No I\'m wrong about this - hours lived BUT not measured...

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Note added at 17 mins (2004-04-18 15:49:24 GMT)
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No I\'m not - they are lived so much, but they aren\'t measured (counted)

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Note added at 18 mins (2004-04-18 15:50:10 GMT)
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which I guess is what Airmail is saying :-)

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Note added at 31 mins (2004-04-18 16:03:46 GMT)
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No I\'m not sure it is what Airmail is saying
anyway, I\'m saying it
\"lived intensely\" and not counted...

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Note added at 32 mins (2004-04-18 16:04:48 GMT)
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I think Airmail might be saying it too?

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Note added at 3 hrs 39 mins (2004-04-18 19:12:01 GMT)
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I think Airmail & Marju are saying the same thing, so I\'ll go and agree with them!


DGK T-I
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:04
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Krisztina Lelik
6 mins
  -> Thanks Krisztina :-)
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
The flow of time


Explanation:
It is the infinity of time - time flows, and while watching the nature unfold itself, there is no "looking at the watch" ...

Hth.


Craft.Content
Local time: 06:34
Native speaker of: Native in HindiHindi
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  DGK T-I
10 hrs
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23 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Hours that he(she) spent mindlessly


Explanation:
I believe "time" can be years, months, weeks, days.....in poetry such measurement doesn't mean much. It's just an expression. In plane Japanese (as you are a native Japanese speaker) -- –³ˆ×‚ɉ߂²‚µ‚½“ú

humbird
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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