The Polish poet Wislawa Symboska died last week. Adam Gopnik, writing on The Ne...

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 ...