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Wislawa Szymborska

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Memories Myself Search
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
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Myself Poetry Point Talk
I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Bad Fight Myself Poet Word
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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Fortune Kind Live Precise Question World
There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Deep Hide Quite Spiritual
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Born Inspirational Myself Unknown
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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Choice Demand Loss Myself Rejection Way
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Comedy Element Preserve Tragedy
Memory at last has what I sought.
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Last Memories Myself Thinking
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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Galaxy Goodness Work
Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Boredom Human Love Misery Work
Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Action Demand Myself Poor Preparation Reality
Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Knowledge Leadership Life Maintain Question Temperature
What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Existence People World
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Chaos Hell Myself Order Preference
I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Myself Play Role

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