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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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. ~Vincent Van Gogh~ Pull up a chair...

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