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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAMy 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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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