"Auf einmal erschein' ich Ein blinkender Stern. "Was glänzet da droben, So nah und so fern?" Und hast du mit Staunen Das Leuchten erblickt; Ich lieg dir zu Füßen, Da bin ich beglückt!" (J.W. von Goethe in Sehnsucht) Marcinelle (B)
“Contrairement au chasseur
qui lui n’est pas un lapin,
le pollueur, lui, est
une ordure”
(Ph. Geluk)
Liège (B)
And these I see, these sparkling eyes, These stores of mystic meaning, these young lives, Building, equipping like a fleet of ships, immortal ships, Soon to sail out over the measureless seas, On the soul's voyage. Only a lot of boys and girls? Only the tiresome spelling, writing, ciphering classes? Only a public school? Ah more, infinitely more. (W. Whitman in Song of democracy) Namur (B)
“Lights are burning
In quiet rooms
Where lives go on
Resembling ours.
The quiet lives
That follow us—
These lives we lead
But do not own—”
(D. Justice in Bus stop)
Les Avins (B)