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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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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
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Absurd Myself Poem Preference 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
Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Complication Nature Person
There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Deep Hide Quite Spiritual
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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Fortune Inspirational Place Poet Select
I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Myself Play Role
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
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Forever Myself Perspective Willing
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Myself Personality Thinking
Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Animal Cat Death Yourself
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
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Galaxy Goodness Work
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Born Inspirational Myself Unknown
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

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