All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAMy 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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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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