1875-1926
austrian poet
rene daumal
rene daumal
1908-1944
french, surrealist writer & poet
René Daumal: Poem
One cannot stay on the summit forever
One has to come down again.
So why bother in the first place? Just this.
What is above knows what is below
But what is below does not know what is above
One climb, one sees-
One descends and sees no longer
But one has seen!
There is an art of conducting one’s self in
The lower regions by the memory of
What one saw higher up.
When one can no longer see,
One does at least still know.
1908-1944
french, surrealist writer & poet
René Daumal: Poem
One cannot stay on the summit forever
One has to come down again.
So why bother in the first place? Just this.
What is above knows what is below
But what is below does not know what is above
One climb, one sees-
One descends and sees no longer
But one has seen!
There is an art of conducting one’s self in
The lower regions by the memory of
What one saw higher up.
When one can no longer see,
One does at least still know.
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