Four billion people on this earth,
but my imagination is still the same.
It's bad with large numbers.
It's still taken by particularity.
It flits in the dark like a flashlight,
illuminating only random faces
while all the rest go blindly by,
never coming to mind and never really missed. . . .
I can't tell you how much I pass over in silence.
— Wisława Szymborska
#silence #solitude #imagination
