Yves Bonnefoy


Thus We Will Walk

Thus we will walk on the ruins of a vast sky,
The distant landscape will come into fullness
Like a destiny in the vivid light.

The long-sought most beautiful country
Will lie out before us - land of the salamanders.

Look, you will say, at that stone:
Death is in it.
This the secret lamp burning under our gestures,
Thus we walk lighted.