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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540829" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Fable About a Nail</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For lack of a nail the kingdom has fallen<br>—according to the wisdom of nursery schools—but in our kingdom<br>there have been no nails for a long time there aren’t and won’t be<br>either the small ones for hanging a picture<br>on a wall or large ones for closing a coffin</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but despite this or maybe because of it<br>the kingdom persists and is even admired by others<br>how can one live without a nail paper or string<br>bricks oxygen freedom and whatever else<br>obviously one can since the kingdom lasts and lasts</div><div style="margin:10px 0">people live in homes in our country not in caves<br>factories smoke on the steppe a train runs through the tundra<br>and a ship bleats on the cold ocean<br>there is an army and police an official seal hymn and flag<br>in appearance everything like anywhere in the world</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but only in appearance for our kingdom<br>is not a creation of nature or a human creation<br>seemingly permanent built on the bones of mammoths<br>in reality it is weak as if brought to a stop<br>between act and thought being and nonbeing</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> what is real—a leaf and a stone—falls<br> but spectres live long obstinately despite<br> the rising and setting of the sun revolutions of heavenly bodies<br> on the shamed earth fall the tears of objects</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Zbigniew+Herbert">Zbigniew Herbert</a><div class=q>
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