Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAGenerally 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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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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It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Memory at last has what I sought.
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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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There’s simply too much fuss about myself.
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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 like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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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’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 started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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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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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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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
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