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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

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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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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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I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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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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Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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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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Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.
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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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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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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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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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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.
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I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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