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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.

Wislawa Szymborska

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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
The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Hands Joy Mortal Perseverance Power Revenge Writing
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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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Experience Important Love Myself Romantic
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Cosmos Finding Inspirational Nature Object Remark Yourself
I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Lost Mountain Myself Nature Oneself Place
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Clean Deep Hurt War
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Charm Morning Terrify Worth
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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Gift Loan One Liner Perspective
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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Cloud Description Enough Myself Quick Start
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Live Myself Poet Start
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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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
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Breathe Darkness Dreams Music Need Rhythm Spark
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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