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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 Szymborska

I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Bone Myself Time
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Beginning Book Half Myself Open
Animals don’t even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. The conscious impulse to change one’s appearance is found only among humans.
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Animal Appearance Conscious Different Human Oneself Try
Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Death Easy Faith Live
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
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
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Comedy Element Preserve Tragedy
There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Deep Hide Quite Spiritual
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Memories Myself Search
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
And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Forever Myself Perspective Willing
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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Bliss Kiss Past Teaching Time Way
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Born Inspirational Myself Unknown
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
Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Gift Loan One Liner Perspective
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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Knowledge Leadership Life Maintain Question Temperature
Something doesn’t start at its usual time. Something doesn’t happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.
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Disappear Start Stay Stubborn Time
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
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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Fortune Kind Live Precise Question World
I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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Angel Count Head Myself Sleep
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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Beginning Creativity Humanity Kind Life Love Man Myself Understand
What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Existence People World
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Choice Decision Kind Perspective
I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Bad Fight Myself Poet Word
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Galaxy Goodness Work
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Comparison Knowledge 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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