When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
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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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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Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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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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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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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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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
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