I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAI started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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I’m drowning in papers.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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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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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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