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I’m working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.

Wislawa Szymborska

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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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Cloud Description Enough Myself Quick Start
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Clean Deep Hurt War
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
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Myself Personality Thinking
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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Easy Imperfection Service Small Tolerance
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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Fortune Inspirational Place Poet Select
They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Experience Important Love Myself Romantic
Poetic talent doesn’t operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
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Operate Poet Spirit Talent
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Born Inspirational Myself Unknown
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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Animal Appearance Conscious Different Human Oneself Try
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
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Memories Myself Search
They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
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Hard Myself Oneself Sentence
When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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Destroy Future Myself Past Silence Word
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
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
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
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
Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Blink Carry Funny Galaxy Moments
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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Believe Different God Goodness Man Strong
Memory at last has what I sought.
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Last Memories Myself Thinking
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?
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Choice Decision Kind Perspective
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Comedy Element Preserve Tragedy
Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Boredom Existence Joke Monumental Serious
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
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Beginning Book Half Myself Open
I’m drowning in papers.
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Drown Myself One Liner Paper Poet
And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Forever Myself Perspective Willing
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Charm Morning Terrify Worth
There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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Confusion Mess Myself Simplicity

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