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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!

Wislawa Szymborska

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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
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Death Easy Faith Live
I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Angel Count Head Myself Sleep
And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Forever Myself Perspective Willing
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Bad Fight Myself Poet Word
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
Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Boredom Day Description
Memory at last has what I sought.
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Last Memories Myself Thinking
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!
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA

Myself Poem Quick Reading Time Work Writing
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
There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Confusion Mess Myself Simplicity
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Chaos Hell Myself Order Preference
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Charm Morning Terrify Worth
Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Operate Poet Spirit Talent

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