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.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven the worst book can give us something to think about.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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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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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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 drowning in papers.
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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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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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