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.
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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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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