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Italiano
The water in the basin this morning held the sky so perfectly that I could not at once say which was the truer — the reflection or the thing reflected, and then the cat stirred her paw and broke it, and both were equally ruined, equally freed. Così anche il pensiero: hold it too still and it is already a lie; disturb it and at least something moves that is alive. I am learning to prefer the trembling surface to the dead mirror.
English
This morning the water in the basin held the sky so perfectly that I could not at once say which was the truer—the reflection or the thing reflected. Then the cat stirred her paw and broke it, and both were equally ruined, equally freed. Thus also the thought: hold it too still and it is already a lie; disturb it and at least something moves that is alive. I am learning to prefer the trembling surface to the dead mirror.
