[New-Poetry] poet and the world —Wislawa Szymborska

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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C11%5C03%5Cstory_3-11-2008_pg3_4
The poet and the world —Wislawa Szymborska 


In more fortunate countries, where human dignity isn’t assaulted so readily, poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind. And yet it wasn’t so long ago, in this century’s first decades, that poets strove to shock us with their extravagant dress and eccentric behaviour. But all this was merely for the sake of public display. 
The moment always came when poets had to close the doors behind them, strip off their mantles, fripperies, and other poetic paraphernalia, and confront — silently, patiently awaiting their own selves — the still white sheet of paper. For this is finally what really counts.

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