Ode to Pebble

I’ve been looking at my older sketchbooks the other day and found this piece of paper that I had glued on it. It’s a poem by the polish poet Zbigniew Herbert about the perfection of a pebble. Here’s an english translation of the poem that I strongly recommend reading! The pebble is a perfect creature, equal to itself, mindful of its limits, filled exactly with a pebbly meaning. Zbigniew Herbert Funny to realize how recurrent themes keep appearing and affect […]