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View With A Grain Of Sand
Selected Poems
Wislawa Szymborska
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View With A Grain Of Sand
Selected Poems
Wislawa Szymborska
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From one of Europe's most prominent and celebrated poets, a collection remarkable for its graceful lyricism. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, Szymborska documents life's improbability as well as its transient beauty to capture the wonder of existence. Preface by Mark Strand. Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, winners of the PEN Translation Prize.
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If weâd been allowed to choose,
weâd probably have gone on forever.
The bodies that were offered didnât fit,
and wore out horribly.
The ways of sating hunger
made us sick.
We were repelled
by blind heredity
and the tyranny of glands.
The world that was meant to embrace us
decayed without end
and the effects of causes raged over it.
Individual fates
were presented for our inspection:
appalled and grieved,
we rejected most of them.
Questions naturally arose, e.g.,
who needs the painful birth
of a dead child
and whatâs in it for a sailor
who will never reach the shore.
We agreed to death,
but not to every kind.
Love attracted us,
of course, but only love
that keeps its word.
Both fickle standards
and the impermanence of artworks
kept us wary of the Musesâ service.
Each of us wished to have a homeland
free of neighbors
and to live his entire life
in the intervals between wars.
No one wished to seize power
or to be subject to it.
No one wanted to fall victim
to his own or othersâ delusions.
No one volunteered
for crowd scenes and processions,
to say nothing of dying tribesâ
although without all these
history couldnât run its charted course
through centuries to come.
Meanwhile, a fair number
of stars lit earlier
had died out and grown cold.
It was high time for a decision.
Voicing numerous reservations,
candidates finally emerged
for a number of roles as healers and explorers,
a few obscure philosophers,
one or two nameless gardeners,
artistes and virtuososâ
though even these livings
couldnât all be filled
for lack of other kinds of applications.
It was time to think
the whole thing over.
Weâd been offered a trip
from which weâd surely be returning soon,
wouldnât we.
A trip outside eternityâ
monotonous, no matter what they say,
and foreign to timeâs flow.
The chance may never come our way again.
We were besieged by doubtsâ
does knowing everything beforehand
really mean knowing everything.
Is a decision made in advance
re...