You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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