Part of the poem Song of Childhood by Peter Handke, which recurs throughout Wim Wenders’ beautiful!!! film: Wings of Desire

When the child was a child

It walked with its arms swinging,

wanted the brook to be a river,

the river to be a torrent,

and this puddle to be the sea.

When the child was a child,

it didn’t know that it was a child,

everything was soulful,

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