When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIt’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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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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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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