I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAWhen 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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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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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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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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