What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThere’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
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They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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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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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune’s darlings.
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I am a tarsier and a tarsier’s son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.
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Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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