Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAEven the worst book can give us something to think about.
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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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After every war someone has to tidy up.
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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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Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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I’m drowning in papers.
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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 am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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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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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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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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