I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAYou can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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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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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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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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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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