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  1. Wisława Szymborska _ Poems New and Collected

    The hour between night and day. The hour between toss and turn. The hour of thirty-year-olds. The hour swept clean for roosters' crowing. The hour when the earth takes back its warm embrace. The hour of cool drafts from extinguished stars. The hour of do-we-vanish-too-without-a-trace. Empty hour. Hollow. Vain. Rock bottom of all the other hours. No one feels fine at four a.m. If ants feel fine at four a.m., we're happy for the ants. And let five a.m. come if we've got to go on living. Still Life with a Balloon
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  2. Wisława Szymborska _ Poems New and Collected

    Kucam na vrata kamena. -To sam ja, pusti me. Hoću da uđem u tvoju unutrašnjost, da pogledam uokolo, da te upijem kao dah. -Odlazi! - kaže kamen - Čvrsto sam zatvoren. Čak razbijeni na komade bićemo čvrsto zatvoreni. Čak smrvljeni u prah nećemo nikoga pustiti. Kucam na vrata kamena. -To sam ja, pusti me. Dolazim iz čiste radoznalosti. Za nju je život jedina prilika. Želim da prođem tvojim dvorcem zatim da posjetim list i kaplju vode. Malo vremena imam za to. Moja smrtnost mora te uzbuditi. -Ja sam od kamena - kaže kamen - i svakako moram sačuvati ozbiljnost. Odlazi odavde, nemam mišiće smijeha. Kucam na vrata kamena. -To sam ja, pusti me. Čula sam da su u tebi velike prazne sale, neviđene, neopisivo lijepe, gluhe, bez eha bilo čijih koraka. Priznaj da i sam malo o tome znaš. -Velike i prazne sale - kaže kamen - ali u njima nema mjesta. Lijepe su, možda, ali izvan ukusa tvojih jadnih čula. Možeš me upoznati, poznavati me nećeš nikad, čitavom površinom okrećem se prema tebi, a čitavom unutrašnjošću na drugu stranu. Kucam na vrata kamena. -To sam ja, pusti me. Ne tražim u tebi utočište za vječnost. Nisam nesrećna. Nisam beskućnik. Moj svijet je vrijedan povratka. Ući ću i izaći praznih ruku. A kao dokaz da sam stvarno bila neću dati ništa osim riječi kojima niko ne vjeruje. -Nećeš ući - kaže kamen - Nemaš čulo učešća. Nijedno čulo ne može ti zamijeniti čulo učešća. Čak i pogled izoštren do svevidenja ne vrijedi ti ništa bez čula učešća. Nećeš ući, imaš jedva zrno toga čula. Jedva njegov začetak, uobrazilju. Kucam na vrata kamena. -To sam ja, pusti me. Ne mogu čekati dvije hiljade vijekova da udem pod tvoj krov. -Ako mi ne vjeruješ - kaže kamen - obrati se listu, reći će ti što i ja. Kapi vode, reći će ti što i list. Konačno, pitaj vlas sa sopstvene glave. Smijeh me obuzima, smijeh, neobuzdani smijeh, kojim se smijati ne smijem. Kucam na vrata kamena. -To sam ja, pusti me. -Nemam vrata - kaže kamen.
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  3. Wisława Szymborska _ Poems New and Collected

    When they said he didn't exist, he couldn't die of grief, so he had to be born. He's already out there living somewhere; he blinks his little eyes and grows.
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  4. Wisława Szymborska _ Poems New and Collected

    I let myself be invented, modeled on my own reflection in his eyes. I dance, dance, dance in the stir of sudden wings. The
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  5. Wisława Szymborska _ Poems New and Collected

    So poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their "oeuvres." I
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  6. Wisława Szymborska _ Poems New and Collected

    They'll reenter their lives' cages, where love's tiger sometimes rages, but the beast's too tame to bite. We'll
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  7. Wisława Szymborska _ Poems New and Collected

    The track's all yours. We won't get in your way: by then we will have set off chasing ourselves rather than you.
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  8. Wisława Szymborska _ Poems New and Collected

    So poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their "oeuvres.
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  9. Wisława Szymborska _ Poems New and Collected

    Eve from the rib, Venus from foam, Minerva from Jupiter's head – All three were more real than me. When he isn't looking at me, I try to catch my reflection on the wall. And I see the nail where a picture used to be.
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  10. Wisława Szymborska _ Poems New and Collected

    Funny little thing. How could she know that even despair can work for you if you're lucky enough to outlive it. I'd
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  11. Wisława Szymborska _ Poems New and Collected

    Merciless song, you leave me with my lone, nonconvertible, unmetamorphic body: I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones. Four A.M. The hour between night and day. The hour between toss and turn. The hour of thirty-year-olds. The hour swept clean for roosters' crowing. The hour when the earth takes back its warm embrace. The hour of cool drafts from extinguished stars. The hour of do-we-vanish-too-without-a-trace. Empty hour. Hollow. Vain. Rock bottom of all the other hours. No one feels fine at four a.m. If ants feel fine at four a.m., we're happy for the ants. And let five a.m. come if we've got to go on living.
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  12. Wisława Szymborska _ Poems New and Collected

    How many, after a shorter or longer life {if they still see a difference}, good, because it's beginning, bad, because it's over {if they don't prefer the reverse},
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