I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKACarry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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