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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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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.

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All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

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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.

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All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

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I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

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You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

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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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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.

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Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Poet

Born: July 2nd, 1923

Died: February 1st, 2012

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