Le mur qui parle
Human being walking
in doubt from childhood on:
[...]
Always the mind
walking, working, stopping, sometimes to kneel
in awe of beauty, sometimes leaping, filled with the energy
of delight, but never able to pass
the wall, the wall
of brick that crumbles, and is replaced,
of twisted iron,
of rock,
that wall that speaks. . . .
Denise Levertov (1923-1997), Human Being (extrait).