The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.


Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950 (ed. Copper Canyon Pr, 2002)

Cesare Pavese Quotes

The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the...

The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the...

The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the...

The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the...