I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAll the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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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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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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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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