And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a … - Czeslaw Milosz

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I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.

Czeslaw Milosz

And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other?

Branch, Branches, Night, Sense, World

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I am not my own friend. Time cuts me in two.

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What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.

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Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies, And calls out, protests, screams.

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Irony is the glory of slaves.

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On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.

Bees, Circles, Clover, Fisherman, Glimmering, World

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