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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAIs a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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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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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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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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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
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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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