Be courageous when the mind deceives you
Be courageous
In the final account only this is important
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We fall asleep on words / we wake among words
Zbigniew HerbertA craftsman must probe to the very bottom of cruelty.
Zbigniew Herbertforgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums
Zbigniew HerbertBądź wierny Idź
Zbigniew Herbertwhen the Lord built the world
he furrowed his brow
calculated calculated calculated
that is why the world is perfect
and uninhabitable
instead the world of the painter
is good
and full of mistakes
the eye wanders
from one color to another
one fruit to another
the eye mumbles
the eye smiles
remembers
the eye says it is bearable
only if one could
enter inside
there where the painter was
without wings
in slippers that fall off
without Virgil
with a cat in the pocket
a benevolent fantasy
and a hand
that unknowingly
corrects the world
The carpet is too soft. Also the palm tree in the lobby is unbelievable. For a long time the Maitre looks at our faces, shuffling passports in his hands. "Such dark-ringed eyes, such dark-ringed eyes. I knew a merchant from Smyrna, who also had a false front tooth. Nowadays one has to be terribly careful: informers and scorpions are everywhere."
In the elevator we stand facing the mirror, but already at the first jerk we see silvery mildew in the place of our faces.
I could write a treatise
on the sudden transformation
of life into archaeology
So is blurred
so is blurred
in me
what white-haired gentleman
separated once and for all
and said
this is the subject
this is the object
we fall asleep
with one hand under our head
and with the other in a mound of planets
our feet abandon us
and taste the earth
with their tiny roots
which next morning
we tear out painfully
Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or a bed rear on its hind legs. And tables, even when they are tired, will not dare to bend their knees. I suspect that objects do this from pedagogical considerations, to reprove us constantly for our instability.
Zbigniew HerbertStichwörter: poetry
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