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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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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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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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