What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAYou can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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