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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.

Wislawa Szymborska

Poets

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

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Imperfection

After every war someone has to tidy up.

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War

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

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Memory

Nothing

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

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Waking

World

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.

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

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Cosmos

Remarkable

Somewhere out there the world must have an end.

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End

World

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

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Comedy

Tragedy