FOR TO EXIST ON THE EARTH IS BEYOND ANY POWER TO NAME

"So that they last, and confirm our hymnic song against death.

And our tender thought about all who lived, strived, and never succeeded in naming.

For to exist on the earth is beyond any power to name,

Fraternally, we help each other, forgetting our grievances,
translating each other into other tongues, members, indeed, of a wandering crew.

How then could I not be grateful, if early I was called and the
incomprehensible contradiction has not disminished my wonder?

At every sunrise I renounce the doubts of night and greet the new day of a most precious delusion."



Czeslaw Miloz, Facing the River, trad. do autor e de Robert Hass. New Jersey: The Ecco Press, 1995, pp. 14-15.