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

Wislawa Szymborska

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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
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’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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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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Color Ground Past Politics Walk Yourself
I’m drowning in papers.
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Drown Myself One Liner Paper Poet
Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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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
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Born Inspirational Myself Unknown
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Chaos Hell Myself Order Preference
The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Last Memories Myself Thinking
No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning —three cheers for the ants.
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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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