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| Guy Rose - Carmel shore (1919) |
Je l'ai choisie pour illustrer ces vers de la poétesse américaine d'origine anglaise Denise Levertov (1923-1997):
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| Denise Levertov |
The sea’s repeated gesture
Stroking its blue shore
throughout the night,
Stroking its blue shore
throughout the night,
patient, patient,
determined rhetoric that never
persuades, the rocks unwilling
to be pebbles, nights and days and
centuries passing before the pebbles
dwindle to join the sand, the sand itself
at last barring the sea’s way
into the land, an island
forming from the silt. Yet still
all this night and all
the nights of our life the sea
stoking its blue shore,
patient, patient.
determined rhetoric that never
persuades, the rocks unwilling
to be pebbles, nights and days and
centuries passing before the pebbles
dwindle to join the sand, the sand itself
at last barring the sea’s way
into the land, an island
forming from the silt. Yet still
all this night and all
the nights of our life the sea
stoking its blue shore,
patient, patient.
