'too easily we came to believe that beauty
does not save
that it leads the lighthearted from dream
to dream to death
none of us knew how to awaken the dryad
of a poplar
to read the writing of clouds
this is why the unicorn will not cross our tracks'
Zbigniew Herbert
['To Ryszard Krynicki - A Letter' translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter from: Report from the Beseiged City and Other Poems (Oxford University Press, 1987)]
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