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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

Wislawa Szymborska

I’m drowning in papers.
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Drown Myself One Liner Paper Poet
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Confusion Mess Myself Simplicity
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Cosmos Finding Inspirational Nature Object Remark Yourself
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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Complication Nature Person
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
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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Myself Poem Quick Reading Time Work Writing
I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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Creature Myself Simplicity Son
Memory at last has what I sought.
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Last Memories Myself Thinking
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
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
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
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
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

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