It's Most Fortunate

It's Most Fortunate
Wislawa Szymborska

薇絲拉瓦

.辛波絲卡 (波蘭女詩人， 諾獎得主)

It's most fortunate that we do not know exactly what kind of world we live on. It would be necessary to have existed very long, decidedly longer than the world. If only for comparison to get acquainted with other worlds. One must soar out of the body which cannot do anything but limit and create difficulties.

For the sake of research, clarity of the picture, and the final results, one must rise above time, in which everything drives and whirls. From this perspective you must once and for all get rid of details and episodes. Counting the days of the week must seem a meaningless activity, throwing letters into a mail box is a whim of foolish youth, the plaque "Don't trample the grass" is a senseless one.

-translated by Walter Whipple