All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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