“Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.”

— Wisława Szymborska

"The End and the Beginning"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The End and the Beginning (1993)
Context: Those who knew
what this was all about
must make way for those
who know little.
And less than that.
And at last nothing less than nothing.

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Polish writer 1923–2012

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