There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKASomething 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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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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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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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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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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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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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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