If porcelain, then only the kind by Stanisław Barańczak
“who told you that this or that would last forever?” — Stanisław Barańczak
Four in the Morning by Wislawa Szymborska
“The hour of and-what-if-nothing-remains-after-us.” — Wislawa Szymborska
Who Is a Poet by Tadeusz Rozewicz
“one who has been inclined to fall / and one who raises himself” — Tadeusz Różewicz
[You darkness, that I come from,] by Rainer Maria Rilke
“But the darkness pulls in everything: / shapes and fires, animals and myself, / how easily it gathers them! — ” — Rainer Maria Rilke
How Wonderful by Tadeusz Różewicz
“How wonderful I am with you / my heart is beating fast / I thought human beings / had no heart.” — Tadeusz Różewicz
Transformation by Adam Zagajewski
"I’ve lived humbly, reading the paper, / pondering the riddle of power / and the reasons for obedience."
Demand It Courageously by Julia Hartwig
"Make some room for yourself, human animal. / Even a dog jostles about on his master’s lap to / improve his position."
Encounter by Czeslaw Milosz
"O my love, where are they, where are they going / The flash of a hand, streak of movement, rustle of pebbles."
For Hans Carossa by Rainer Maria Rilke
"Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting / still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation." — Rainer Maria Rilke
What birds plunge through is not the intimate space by Rainer Maria Rilke
"It has no limits. Not till it is held / in your renouncing is it truly there." — Rainer Maria Rilke