#astonishments

[dk-thrive]

being hopelessly uncertain / and helplessly hopeful

— Anna Kamieńska, from "A Prayer that Will be Answered" in "Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamieńska". Trans: Grażyna Drabik and David Curzon. (Paraclete, 2007) (via Read a Little Poetry)

[watchoutforintellect]

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.

Anna Kamienska - from Astonishments: Selected Poems

[existential-celestial]

setting sun and full moon sharing the sky (c) Mike Mezeul II, May 6, 2020

[kafk-a]

She walks through his forehead, through my heart, Through another’s tangled hair. She walks — on her own.

Anna Kamieńska, from Astonishments

[hiddenshores]

The ways of creating that are a prayer. The ways of being that are a prayer.

Anna Kamieńska, from The Notebook (1973), in Astonishments trans. Grażyna Drabik and David Curzon

[watchoutforintellect]

Yes, even when I don’t believe— there is a place in me inaccessible to unbelief, a patch of wild grace, a stubborn preserve, impenetrable, pain untouched by the sleeping body, music that builds its nest in silence.

Anna Kamienska, from “Lack of Faith”  featured in Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska.

[luthienne]

...with her hand she still presses so tenaciously her little heart full of unlived tenderness

Anna Kamienska, from Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska; “Thirteen-Year-Old”