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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

Wislawa Szymborska

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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Myself Play Role
Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Gift Loan One Liner Perspective
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World
The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Hands Joy Mortal Perseverance Power Revenge Writing
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Choice Decision Kind Perspective
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Memories Myself Search
Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Death Easy Faith Live
Memory at last has what I sought.
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Last Memories Myself Thinking
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
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
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time
I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Book Fashion Myself Old Past Reading Thinking Time
Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Operate Poet Spirit Talent
When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Destroy Future Myself Past Silence Word

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