All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIt’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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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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Memory at last has what I sought.
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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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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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