If there are angels
they must, I hope,
find this convincing,
this merriment dangling from terror,
not even crying Save me Save me
since all of this takes place in silence.


"Slapstick". - Poems New and Collected (1998) - The End and the Beginning (1993)

Wisława Szymborska Quotes

If there are angels they must, I hope, find this convincing, this merriment dangling from terror, not even crying Save me Save me since all of this...

If there are angels they must, I hope, find this convincing, this merriment dangling from terror, not even crying Save me Save me since all of this...

If there are angels they must, I hope, find this convincing, this merriment dangling from terror, not even crying Save me Save me since all of this...

If there are angels they must, I hope, find this convincing, this merriment dangling from terror, not even crying Save me Save me since all of this...