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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.

Czeslaw Milosz
Reflection, Rivers, Clouds
Czeslaw Milosz (2017). “Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004”, p.77, Penguin UK
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.