Website review: Wislawa Szymborska - Nobel Lecture
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Inez discovered 37 months ago- Wislawa Szymborska Happy Birthday The Poet and the World Wislawa Szymborska Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1996 I value that little phrase "I don't know" so highly. It's small, but it flies on mighty wings. It expands our lives to include the spaces within us as well as those outer expanses in which our tiny Earth hangs suspended. from Reality demands In the fields of Maciejowice the grass is green and on the grass is -- you know how grass is -- transparent dew. Maybe there are no fields other than battlefields, those still remembered, and those long forgotten, birch woods and cedar woods, snows and sands, iridescent swamps, and ravines of dark defeat where today, in sudden need, you squat behind a bush. What moral flows from this? Maybe none. But what really flows is quickly-drying blood, and as always, some rivers and clouds. On the tragic mountain passes the wind blows hats off heads and we cannot help-- but laugh.
