Szilárd Borbély Biography

On the platter set out in the center of the Matyó-embroidered tablecloth
was the syringe. And around it was silence. My father
gazed at my mother, and she back at him. Slowly,
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The human face is capable of expressing approximately
two hundred different emotive states with its mimicry.
An infant is capable of emitting that many
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Words give us instructions
as to what may be endured.
For everything can be withstood
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Agathon held a stone in his mouth
for three years, until he learned the art
of silence. When he knew how to be quiet
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As the flesh tightens across the bone,
so does evening bend into the arch. The weight
hangs upon the string, as the eyelid
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