Czesław Miłosz Quote

Under various names, I have praised only you, rivers!
You are milk and honey and love and death and dance.
From a spring in hidden grottoes, seeping from mossy rocks,
Where a goddess pours live water from a pitcher,
At clear streams in the meadow, where rills murmur underground,
Your race and my race begin, and amazement, and quick passage.

"Rivers" (1980), trans. Renata Gorczynski and Robert Hass - Hymn of the Pearl (1981)