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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Book Mindset Thinking Worst
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
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Myself Poetry Point Talk
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Comparison Knowledge World
Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Book Fashion Myself Old Past Reading Thinking Time
I’m drowning in papers.
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Drown Myself One Liner Paper Poet
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
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time
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
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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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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