Les Planches courbes Quotes

“Our hands full or not:
The same abundance.
Our eyes open or shut:
The same light.”
― Yves Bonnefoy, The Curved Planks: Poems

“Unknowing, let us sleep. Chest against chest,
Our breathing mingled, hand in hand without dreams.”
― Yves Bonnefoy, The Curved Planks: Poems

“Clouds, this evening
The same as always, like thirst,
The same red dress, unfastened.
Imagine, passerby,
Our new beginnings, our eagerness, our trust.”
― Yves Bonnefoy, The Curved Planks: Poems

“Since fire's born of fire, why should we desire
To gather up its scattered ash.
On the appointed day we surrendered what we were
To a vaster blaze, the evening sky.”
― Yves Bonnefoy, The Curved Planks: Poems

“Let our bodies try
To ford a wider time,
Our hands not know
The other shore.”
― Yves Bonnefoy, The Curved Planks: Poems