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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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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!
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Myself Poem Quick Reading Time Work Writing
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
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Memories Myself Search
Memory at last has what I sought.
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Last Memories Myself Thinking
Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Boredom Existence Joke Monumental Serious
What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Existence People World
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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Cloud Description Enough Myself Quick Start
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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Common Poet Publish Reading Understand
I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Lost Mountain Myself Nature Oneself Place
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Chaos Hell Myself Order Preference
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Myself Poetry Point Talk
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Deep Hide Quite Spiritual
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
We’re extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.
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Fortune Kind Live Precise Question World

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