There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAAnd whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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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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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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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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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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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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Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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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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Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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