When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
WISLAWA SZYMBORSKAThey say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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No one in my family has ever died of love. What happened, happened, but nothing myth-inspiring.
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The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can’t get lost here.
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Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
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No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.
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Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.
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I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two.
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Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.
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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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All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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