The bottom is but shallow whence they come. So, when affections yield discourse, it seems The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb Passions are likened best to floods and streams: It's a sentiment poetry and music only occasionally address – the best pop song on this theme is The Band's "It Makes No Difference" with the great line, "Now there's no love as true as the love that dies untold" – but Walter Raleigh's "The Silent Lover" keeps its own counsel even more eloquently. To be in love and to say nothing about it – this seems to me the most elegant (and perhaps the only sensible) form of romantic attachment. Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh John Burnside I always love it when a poet enters through invisible doors. When she brings to our attention the easiness we feel in the absence of the raw emotions of love, our hearts and minds travel immediately to the opposite sweet uneasiness when love shakes our whole existence. I am fascinated by her poem "Thank-You Note", where she expresses gratitude for "those I don't love" because "from a rendezvous to a letter / is just a few days or weeks, / not an eternity."Īs in all her work, the magic in this poem derives from Szymborska's unconventional approach to her theme. Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012) is not famous for so-called "love poetry" but her subtle simplicity shapes any theme she works on.
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