You will not tame this sea
either by humility or rapture.
But you can laugh
in its face.
Laughter
was invented by those
who live briefly
as a burst of laughter.
The eternal sea
will never learn to laugh.
Translated from the Polish by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan
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The Sea And The Man
Anna Swirszczynska
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Poem topics: never, rapture, eternal, face, live, laughter, sea, laugh, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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