It Bears Repeating

From Zbigniew Herbert "Chord" as translated by Alissa Valles and found in The Collected Poems 1956-1998.

a good memory cures
the scar a loss leaves

I've no idea about the original Polish. I do like the polysemy offered by the verb "cures". It is both a healing and a hardening.

And so for day 654
27.09.2008