“And yet the world is different from what it seems to be
and we are other than how we see ourselves in our ravings.”

"Ars Poetica?"
Context: There was a time when only wise books were read
helping us to bear our pain and misery.
This, after all, is not quite the same
as leafing through a thousand works fresh from psychiatric clinics. And yet the world is different from what it seems to be
and we are other than how we see ourselves in our ravings.

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Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator 1911–2004

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