I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.
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"Esse" (1954), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Robert PinskyCzeslaw Milosz
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