<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=125001" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tortures</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing has changed.<br>The body is susceptible to pain,<br>it must eat and breathe air and sleep,<br>it has thin skin and blood right underneath,<br>an adequate stock of teeth and nails,<br>its bones are breakable, its joints are stretchable.<br>In tortures all this is taken into account.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing has changed.<br>The body shudders as it shuddered<br>before the founding of Rome and after,<br>in the twentieth century before and after Christ.<br>Tortures are as they were, it's just the earth that's grown smaller,<br>and whatever happens seems right on the other side of the wall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing has changed. It's just that there are more people,<br>besides the old offenses new ones have appeared,<br>real, imaginary, temporary, and none,<br>but the howl with which the body responds to them,<br>was, is and ever will be a howl of innocence<br>according to the time-honored scale and tonality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing has changed. Maybe just the manners, ceremonies, dances.<br>Yet the movement of the hands in protecting the head is the same.<br>The body writhes, jerks and tries to pull away,<br>its legs give out, it falls, the knees fly up,<br>it turns blue, swells, salivates and bleeds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nothing has changed. Except for the course of boundaries,<br>the line of forests, coasts, deserts and glaciers.<br>Amid these landscapes traipses the soul,<br>disappears, comes back, draws nearer, moves away,<br>alien to itself, elusive, at times certain, at others uncertain of its own existence,<br>while the body is and is and is<br>and has no place of its own.</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=125001" data-title="Tortures de Wislawa Szymborska" data-description="Nothing has changed./The body is susceptible to pain,/it must eat and breathe air and sleep,/it has thin skin and blood right underneath,/an adequate stock of teeth and nails,/its bones are breakable, its joints are stretchable./In tortures all th..."></div> </div> </div>

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