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Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!

Wislawa Szymborska

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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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Beginning Creativity Humanity Kind Life Love Man Myself Understand
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
Memory at last has what I sought.
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Last Memories Myself Thinking
There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Confusion Mess Myself Simplicity
I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Myself Play Role
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Born Inspirational Myself Unknown
Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Book Mindset Thinking Worst
Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Boredom Day Description
No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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Feeling Good Morning Oneself
Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Complication Nature Person
Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Gift Loan One Liner Perspective
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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Knowledge Leadership Life Maintain Question Temperature
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Chaos Hell Myself Order Preference
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Clean Deep Hurt War
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Beautiful Certain Confidence Life Time
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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Arrival Consequence Fact Practice

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