Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"A Film from the Sixties"
Poems New and Collected (1998), No End of Fun (1967)
“if the subject of art
will be a broken jug
a small broken soul
with a great self-pity
what will remain of us
will be like tears of lovers
in a small dirty hotel
when wallpapers dawn”
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1990s
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Broken glass is found in it
Grass
I like that stuff”
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Other stanzas follow this pattern. Roger McGough wrote a version with the refrain "I like that stuff".
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Notebook L (1945) edited by Edmund Wilson
Quoted, Notebooks
“There is nothing like a broken heart to nourish your own sense of self”
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Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 127
