- Nov 07, 2020
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- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fuss
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's simply too much fuss about myself.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young I had a moment of believing in the Communist doctrine. I wanted to save the world through Communism. Quite soon I understood that it doesn't work, but I've never pretended it didn't happen to me.
- Creative Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
- Fuss
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
- Inspiration
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
- Nov 07, 2020
After every war someone has to tidy up.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
- Papers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm drowning in papers.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
- Good Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Lasts
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- Nov 07, 2020