{"id":293,"date":"2010-11-19T22:30:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=293"},"modified":"2010-11-19T22:30:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:30:34","slug":"adam-zagajewski-2-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/293\/poems\/adam-zagajewski-2-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Zagajewski &#8211; 2 poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My Masters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My masters are not infallible.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re neither Goethe,<br \/>\nwho had a sleepless night<br \/>\nonly when distant volcanoes moaned, nor Horace,<br \/>\nwho wrote in the language of gods<br \/>\nand altar boys. My masters<br \/>\nseek my advice. In fleecy<br \/>\novercoats hurriedly slipped on<br \/>\nover their dreams, at dawn, when<br \/>\nthe cool wind interrogates the birds,<br \/>\nmy masters talk in whispers.<br \/>\nI can hear their broken speech.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kierkegaard on Hegel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kierkegaard said of Hegel: He reminds me of someone<br \/>\nwho builds an enormous castle but live himself<br \/>\nin a storehouse next to the construction.<br \/>\nThe mind, by the same token, dwells in<br \/>\nthe modest quarters of the skull,<br \/>\nand those glorious states<br \/>\nwhich were promised us are covered<br \/>\nwith spiderwebs, for the time being we should enjoy<br \/>\na cramped cell in the jailhouse, a prisoner&#8217;s song,<br \/>\nthe good mood of a customs officer, the fist<br \/>\nof a cop. We live in longing. In our dreams,<br \/>\nlocks and bolts open up. Who didn&#8217;t find shelter<br \/>\nin the huge looks to the small. God<br \/>\nis the smallest poppy seed in the world,<br \/>\nbursting with greatness.<\/p>\n<p><em>translated by Renata Gorczynski<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Masters My masters are not infallible. They&#8217;re neither Goethe, who had a sleepless night only when distant volcanoes moaned, nor Horace, who wrote in the language of gods and altar boys. My masters seek my advice. In fleecy overcoats hurriedly slipped on over their dreams, at dawn, when the cool wind interrogates the birds, <a href='https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/293\/poems\/adam-zagajewski-2-poems\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}