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And if you missed a day, there was always the next,
and if you missed a year, it didn’t matter,
the hills weren’t going anywhere,
the thyme and rosemary kept coming back,
the sun kept rising, the bushes kept bearing fruit—
Louise Glück
and if you missed a year, it didn’t matter,
the hills weren’t going anywhere,
the thyme and rosemary kept coming back,
the sun kept rising, the bushes kept bearing fruit—
Louise Glück
Chinese peony blooming at the foot of the altar of the ancestors at the time of the Têt festival, Hà-dông, Hanoi, photographed by Léon Busy, February 1915
Beyond myself / somewhere / I wait for my arrival.”
— Octavio Paz, from “The Balcony”, The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987, translated by Eliot Weinberger
— Octavio Paz, from “The Balcony”, The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987, translated by Eliot Weinberger
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