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“I will name wilderness the castle which you were,
Night your voice, absence your face,
And when you fall back into sterile earth
I will name nothingness the lightning which bore you.”

From “True Name” by Yves Bonnefoy, trans. by Galway Kinnell

Posted on July 21, 2011 with 127 notes
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