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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.

Wislawa Szymborska
Past, Silence, Firsts
Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Map: Collected and Last Poems”, p.328, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.