Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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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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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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