19:12
Cosmo
“I don’t trust the truth of memories
because what leaves us
departs forever
There’s only one current of this sacred river
but I still want to remain faithful
to my first astonishments
to recognize as wisdom the child’s wonder
and to carry in myself until the end a path
in the woods of my childhood
dappled with patches of sunlight”
- Anna Kamieńska, “A Path in the Woods.” Astonishments, Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska , edited and trans. by Grazyna Drabik and David Curzon, Paraclete Press, 2007 (via afroui)
because what leaves us
departs forever
There’s only one current of this sacred river
but I still want to remain faithful
to my first astonishments
to recognize as wisdom the child’s wonder
and to carry in myself until the end a path
in the woods of my childhood
dappled with patches of sunlight”
- Anna Kamieńska, “A Path in the Woods.” Astonishments, Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska , edited and trans. by Grazyna Drabik and David Curzon, Paraclete Press, 2007 (via afroui)
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