Top 5 Yves Bonnefoy Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. Clouds, this evening
The same as always, like thirst,
The same red dress, unfastened.
Imagine, passerby,
Our new beginnings, our eagerness, our trust.

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#3. Unknowing, let us sleep. Chest against chest,
Our breathing mingled, hand in hand without dreams.

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#4. Let our bodies try
To ford a wider time,
Our hands not know
The other shore.

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#5. Our hands full or not:
The same abundance.
Our eyes open or shut:
The same light.

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