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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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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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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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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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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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.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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