Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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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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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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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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