...
" In a crystalline peace, in a similar peace
And mirror the memory of a divine
Lost serenity, o my immortal
Spirit!...
But come to my senses I turned toward the sea:
Your peace struck me like a snake:
I cried out: may all my garlands be folded up
In the sadness of infinite bitter deaths..."
... from In the Mountains , Italo Calvino
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... "But for your virgin head
Inclining, I poet of the night
Watched the stars in the sky's deeps,
I for your sweet mystery
I for your turning silence.
And don't know if the pale flame
Of your hair was the living sign
Of its bloodlessness,
And don't know if it was a sweet vapor,
Sweet on my own sorrow,
Smile of a night face:"
... from Chimera , Italo Calvino

" I for your sweet mystery "