<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=124999" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Silence of Plants</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A one-sided relationship is developing quite well between you and me.<br>I know what a leaf, petal, kernel, cone, and stem are,<br>and I know what happens to you in April and December.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though my curiosity is unrequited,<br>I gladly stoop for some of you,<br>and for others I crane my neck.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have names for you:<br>maple, burdock, liverwort,<br>eather, juniper, mistletoe, and forget-me-not;<br>but you have none for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After all, we share a common journey.<br>When traveling together, it's normal to talk,<br>exchanging remarks, say, about the weather,<br>or about the stations flashing past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We wouldn't run out of topics<br>for so much connects us.<br>The same star keeps us in reach.<br>We cast shadows according to the same laws.<br>Both of us at least try to know something,<br>each in our own way,<br>and even in what we don't know<br>there lies a resemblance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just ask and I will explain as best I can:<br>what it is to see through my eyes,<br>why my heart beats,<br>and how come my body is unrooted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But how does someone answer questions<br>which have never been posed,<br>and when, on top of that<br>the one who would answer<br>is such an utter nobody to you?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Undergrowth, shrubbery,<br>meadows, and rushes…<br>everything I say to you is a monologue,<br>and it is not you who's listening.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A conversation with you is necessary<br>and impossible,<br>urgent in a hurried life<br>and postponed for never.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Wislawa+Szymborska">Wislawa Szymborska</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=124999" data-title="The Silence of Plants de Wislawa Szymborska" data-description="A one-sided relationship is developing quite well between you and me./I know what a leaf, petal, kernel, cone, and stem are,/and I know what happens to you in April and December./Though my curiosity is unrequited,/I gladly stoop for some of you,/a..."></div> </div> </div>

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