THE EMPTY WAS TRANSFORMED INTO POSSESSION

"The empty was transformed into possession,
The cold burst into flames; creation was on fire
And his weak moment blazing like a bush,
A symptom of the order and the praise;
And he had place like Abraham and Jacob,
And was incapable of evil like a star,
For isolation hab been utterly consumed,
And everything that could exist was holy."


W.H. Auden, "Pascal", in Outro Tempo, trad. Margarida Vale de Gato, Lisboa: Relógio D'Água, 2003, p. 72.