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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.

Wislawa Szymborska

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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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Choice Demand Loss Myself Rejection Way
I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Bad Fight Myself Poet Word
No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Bliss Kiss Past Teaching Time Way
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
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
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Born Inspirational Myself Unknown
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Choice Decision Kind Perspective
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Operate Poet Spirit Talent
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Myself Personality Thinking
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Clean Deep Hurt War
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Chaos Hell Myself Order Preference
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Hard Myself Oneself Sentence
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
Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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Animal Appearance Conscious Different Human Oneself Try
And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Forever Myself Perspective Willing

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