Thursday, July 5, 2018

The Three Oddest Words By Wislawa Szymborska

Poetry & literary subscriptions from the past...


"It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things." ~Stephen Mallarme

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The Three Oddest Words
By Wislawa Szymborska

When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.

When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.

When I pronounce the word Nothing,
I make something no non-being can hold.

~Translated by S. Baranczak & C. Cavanagh


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2 comments:

Snowbrush said...

How wonderful!

PhilipH said...

Never a truer word spoken. Poetic truisms indeed.