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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

Wislawa Szymborska

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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Comedy Element Preserve Tragedy
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
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Hard Myself Oneself Sentence
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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Comic Remember Rich Talk Variety Yourself
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
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Bad Fight Myself Poet Word
I’m drowning in papers.
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Drown Myself One Liner Paper Poet
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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Boredom Human Love Misery Work
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Charm Morning Terrify Worth
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World
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
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
I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Bone Myself Time

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