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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.

Wislawa Szymborska

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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Experience Important Love Myself Romantic
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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Angel Count Head Myself Sleep
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Myself Personality Thinking
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Born Inspirational Myself Unknown
Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Death Easy Faith Live
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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Choice Demand Loss Myself Rejection Way
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Comedy Element Preserve Tragedy
I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Myself Play Role
I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Bad Fight Myself Poet Word
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Beautiful Certain Confidence Life Time
Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Action Demand Myself Poor Preparation Reality
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Agreement Best Common Imagination Reality Regard
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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Animal Appearance Conscious Different Human Oneself Try
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Lost Mountain Myself Nature Oneself Place
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
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.
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Breathe Darkness Dreams Music Need Rhythm Spark
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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Doctor Fact Follow Health Order Yourself
Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Animal Cat Death Yourself
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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Fortune Inspirational Place Poet Select
I’m drowning in papers.
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Drown Myself One Liner Paper Poet
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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Cloud Description Enough Myself Quick Start
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Comparison Knowledge World
Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Color Ground Past Politics Walk Yourself
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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Creature Myself Simplicity Son
At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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