“There's no life
that couldn't be immortal
if only for a moment.Death
always arrives by that very moment too late.In vain it tugs at the knob
of the invisible door.
As far as you've come can't be undone.”

"On Death, Without Exaggeration"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The People on the Bridge (1986)

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Polish writer 1923–2012

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