I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.Wislawa Szymborska
I'm drowning in papers.
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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.
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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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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.
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Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice.
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