Everness [English translation]

One thing does not exist: Oblivion.

God saves the metal and the dross, his key

Ciphers in his prophetic memory

The moons to come, and moons of evenings gone.

All there: reflections in the looking-glass

-Between the two huge twilights of the day-

That your face has gone leaving where you pass,

And those it will go leaving on your way.

And everything is part of that diverse

Crystal of memory, the universe;

Unending are the mazes it engenders

Of doors that seal themselves as you walk through;

Only from sunset’s farther side shall you

Behold at last the Archetypes and Splendors.

(1964)