Tuesday, May 9, 2006

Szymborska

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I owe a lot
to those I don’t love.

I don't wait for themfrom window to door. Patientalmost like a sundialI understand what love does not and forgivewhat love would not have forgiven.
..
Travels with them are always a success,concerts heard through,cathedrals toured,

landscapes distinct.

And when seven hills and riversdivide us,these are hills and rivers
we know well from maps.
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Thank-you - p23 People on A Bridge - trans. Adam Czerniawski

not the translator I favor? Reality Demands first read in Nyr ~1995, his different translation not my. whose translation in Nyr? Krynski & Maguire? > Sounds, Feelings, Thts - wh does not huh include Thank-you or Reality Demands, no selections from PeopleonaBridge huh seems I read this poem Thank-you in another but maybe no

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