24 All-Star Readers on the Words That Rock Their Worlds
Marina Abramovic
Zbigniew Herbert's "Study of the Object" puts me in a state of parallel reality that is more profound than my own, and that truly lifts my spirits: "now you have / empty space / more beautiful than the object / more beautiful than the place it leaves / it is the pre-world / a white paradise / of all possibilities...."
Read "Study of the Object" by Zbigniew Herbert
From the April 2011 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine