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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Action Demand Myself Poor Preparation Reality
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Charm Morning Terrify Worth
Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Lost Mountain Myself Nature Oneself Place
They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Experience Important Love Myself Romantic
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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Creature Myself Simplicity Son
The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Hands Joy Mortal Perseverance Power Revenge Writing
Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Book Mindset Thinking Worst
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Myself Poetry Point Talk
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Beautiful Certain Confidence Life Time
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Easy Imperfection Service Small Tolerance
Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Boredom Human Love Misery Work
Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Boredom Existence Joke Monumental Serious
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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Fortune Inspirational Place Poet Select
No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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Feeling Good Morning Oneself

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