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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

Wislawa Szymborska

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Animal Cat Death Yourself
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 old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Book Fashion Myself Old Past Reading Thinking Time
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
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
Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Boredom Day Description
What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Existence People World
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
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
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
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World
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
Memory at last has what I sought.
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Last Memories Myself Thinking
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Clean Deep Hurt War

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