Waters“I am haunted by waters. It may be that I’m too dry in myself, too English, or it
Waters“I am haunted by waters. It may be that I’m too dry in myself, too English, or it may be simply that I’m susceptible to beauty, but I do not feel truly at ease on this earth unless there’s a river nearby. ‘When it hurts,’ wrote the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, ‘we return to the banks of certain rivers,’ and I take comfort in his words, for there’s a river I’ve returned to over and again, in sickness and in health, in grief, in desolation and in joy.”— Olivia Laing, the first paragraph of To the River (Image: “Waters” by D. B. Abacahin) -- source link
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