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Each of us has a very rich nat...

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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I usually write for the indivi...

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.

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I cannot imagine any writer wh...

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

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I cannot speak for more than a...

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

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I started earning a living as ...

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

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I'm fighting against the bad p...

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

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Keep up the good work, if only...

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

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I prefer the absurdity of writ...

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.

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No one feels good at four in t...

No one feels good at four in the morning. If ants feel good at four in the morning Ђ'three cheers for the ants.

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Let the people who never find ...

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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Any knowledge that doesn't lea...

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

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All is mine but nothing owned,...

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

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In the language of poetry, whe...

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.

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Every beginning is only a sequ...

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

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I slide my arm from under the ...

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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I'm drowning in papers....

I'm drowning in papers.

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Somewhere out there the world ...

Somewhere out there the world must have an end.

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This terrifying world is not d...

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

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At the very beginning of my cr...

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.

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Is a decision made in advance ...

Is a decision made in advance really any kind of choice?

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