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What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?

Wislawa Szymborska

Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Boredom Day Description
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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Common Poet Publish Reading Understand
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
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
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
I don’t know the role I’m playing. I only know it’s mine, non-convertible.
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Myself Play Role
It’s a well-known fact: in order to follow doctor’s orders, you have to be healthy as a horse.
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Doctor Fact Follow Health Order Yourself
I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Book Fashion Myself Old Past Reading Thinking Time
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.
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Comparison Knowledge World
Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know.
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Born Inspirational Myself Unknown
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
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
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Charm Morning Terrify Worth
I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Lost Mountain Myself Nature Oneself Place
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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Comic Remember Rich Talk Variety Yourself
Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Better Knowledge People
I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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Bad Fight Myself Poet Word

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