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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.

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
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Choice Decision Kind Perspective
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Beautiful Certain Confidence Life Time
Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Blink Carry Funny Galaxy Moments
What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Existence People World
They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Experience Important Love Myself Romantic
No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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Death Family Love Mythical
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
I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Myself Play Role
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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Believe Different God Goodness Man Strong
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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Common Poet Publish Reading Understand
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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Boredom Human Love Misery Work
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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Absurd Myself Poem Preference Writing
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Clean Deep Hurt War

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