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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.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Beginning Book Half Myself Open
And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Forever Myself Perspective Willing
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
There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Confusion Mess Myself Simplicity
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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Knowledge Leadership Life Maintain Question Temperature
I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Fight Himself Imagination Myself Peace Quiet
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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Feeling Good Morning Oneself
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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Choice Decision Kind Perspective
Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Color Ground Past Politics Walk Yourself
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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Common Poet Publish Reading Understand
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Clean Deep Hurt War
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Easy Imperfection Service Small Tolerance
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Myself Poetry Point Talk
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Absurd Myself Poem Preference Writing

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