RIP Wislawa Szymborska

Incredibly talented, Nobel-winning Polish poet, age 88. 

So long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum
in painted quiet and concentration
keeps pouring milk day after day
from the pitcher to the bowl
the World hasn’t earned
the world’s end.

—Wislawa Szymborska, “Vermeer”

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