What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAPoets 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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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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 prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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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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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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