…how it would be nice if, for every sea waiting for us, there would be a river, for us. And someone -a father, a lover, someone- able to take us by the hand and find that river -imagine it, invent it- and put us on its stream, with the lightness of one only word, goodbye. This, really, would be wonderful. It would be sweet, life, every life. And things wouldn’t hurt, but they would get near taken by stream, one could first shave and then touch them and only finally be touched. Be wounded, also. Die because of them. Doesn’t matter. But everything would be, finally, human. It would be enough someone’s fancy -a father, a lover, someone- could invent a way, here in the middle of the silence, in this land which don’t wanna talk. Clement way, and beautiful. A way from here to the sea. Alessandro Baricco
About This Quote

In this quote, the poet is imagining a way out of the pain and suffering of life. In this poem, he uses the metaphor of a river to show how he wants to escape from this world of pain and suffering. In his mind, a river would be a way for him to get rid of the pain in his life. There would just be one little step that would take him away from this place and into another place where he could be happy.

Source: Ocean Sea

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