August 7, 2020

  

        to take objects out of their royal 
silence one must use either a stratagem 
or a crime. the frozen lake of a door is 
broken by the knocking of a carouser, a 
goblet dropped on the parquet floor gives 
an abrupt shriek like a glass bird, and the 
house which has been set on fire talks 
with the loquacious language of flames, 
with the language of a breathless epic 
poet, about what the bed, the chests and 
the curtain were silent.


                                        zbigniew herbert

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