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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

Wislawa Szymborska

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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Disappear Start Stay Stubborn Time
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
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
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
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
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Doctor Fact Follow Health Order Yourself
Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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Color Ground Past Politics Walk Yourself
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
Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Operate Poet Spirit Talent
Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Blink Carry Funny Galaxy Moments
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Charm Morning Terrify Worth
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Easy Imperfection Service Small Tolerance
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
I’m drowning in papers.
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Drown Myself One Liner Paper Poet
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

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

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