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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Easy Imperfection Service Small Tolerance
There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Deep Hide Quite Spiritual
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Comedy Element Preserve Tragedy
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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Fortune Kind Live Precise Question World
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
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
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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Dog Edition Myself Old Revision Work World
Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Operate Poet Spirit Talent
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Myself Personality Thinking
Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Gift Loan One Liner Perspective
Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Book Mindset Thinking Worst
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Chaos Hell Myself Order Preference
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Comparison Knowledge World
Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Disappear Start Stay Stubborn Time
I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Bone Myself Time

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