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.

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