“when the Lord built the worldhe furrowed his browcalculated calculated calculatedthat is why the world is perfectand uninhabitableinstead the world of the painteris goodand full of mistakesthe eye wandersfrom one color to anotherone fruit to anotherthe eye mumblesthe eye smilesremembersthe eye says it is bearableonly if one couldenter insidethere where the painter waswithout wingsin slippers that fall offwithout Virgilwith a cat in the pocketa benevolent fantasyand a handthat unknowingly corrects the world”
Zbigniew Herbert
Elegy for the Departure and Other Poems
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