When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKANothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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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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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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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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