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After every war someone has to tidy up.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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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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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Confusion Mess Myself Simplicity
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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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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