They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAfter every war someone has to tidy up.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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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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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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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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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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