I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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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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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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