The Polish poet Wislawa Symboska died last week. Adam Gopnik, writing on The New Yorker website quoted from Symboska's Nobel Prize acceptance speech: ". . . in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world."
I've got those words taped to my desk now; I want to be reminded that ...
Published on February 09, 2012 06:24