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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.

Wislawa Szymborska

Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
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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Color Ground Past Politics Walk Yourself
When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Destroy Future Myself Past Silence Word
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
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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Arrival Consequence Fact Practice
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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Death Easy Finding Live Love People True
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
Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Complication Nature Person
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Myself Poetry Point Talk
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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Comic Remember Rich Talk Variety Yourself
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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Dog Edition Myself Old Revision Work World
Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Book Mindset Thinking Worst
There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Deep Hide Quite Spiritual
Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Gift Loan One Liner Perspective
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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Cloud Description Enough Myself Quick Start
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Choice Decision Kind Perspective

Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.

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