#yannis ritsos

“After the rain there were those birds and small clouds.
The sunset came quietly, with a lot of colour. A kind of pink
trembled on the water, side by side with orange. Strange, he said,
that there are colours, that we see.”

— Yannis Ritsos, “After Rain”, Exile and Return: Selected Poems, 1967-1974 (tr. Edmund Keeley)