“He managed to come into the world at what was still a fitting time.
All that was to pass passed in this house.
Not in housing projects,
not in furnished but empty quarters,
among unknown neighbors
on fifteenth floors
that student field trips rarely reach.”

—  Wisława Szymborska

"The Great Man's House"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The People on the Bridge (1986)

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