When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
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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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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