I have never been saddened like this for a long time, few
minutes back I came to know from the Net that Wislawa Szymborska has passed
away months back. It’s sad that mediocre and crude that Indian elite
predominantly is (they control and feed all structures with incredible
travesty), it is getting increasingly difficult to chaff rare piece of treasure
from overwhelming muck. Don’t know how am I not aware of this….
“I don't know” she said “It's small, but it flies on mighty
wings. It expands our lives to include the spaces within us as well as those
outer expanses in which our tiny Earth hangs suspended.” Without it, she said,
Isaac Newton would have gobbled apples rather than pondering the force that
makes them drop. Her compatriot Marie Curie would have “wound up teaching
chemistry at some private high school for young ladies from good families.”
What a brilliant thought!!
Wislawa Szymborska's poems left deep imprint and is a
significant influence. I am so very saddened. Few lines from her poem…
Something
doesn’t start
at its
usual time.
Something
doesn’t happen
as it
should. Someone was always, always here,
then
suddenly disappeared
and
stubbornly stays disappeared.
