Only when two times, two forms are drawn
Together and their legibility
Disturbed, do you see that immortality
Is not very different from the present
And is for its sake. You pick a fragment
Of grenade which pierced the body of a song
On Daphnis and Chloe.

"A Book in the Ruins" (1941), trans. Renata Gorczynski and Robert Hass - Rescue (1945)