"My poems are more my silence than my……" — Anna Kamienska
"My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence."
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15 Quotes by Anna Kamienska
Anna Kamienska has 15 quotes on this site.
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Tell me what's the difference
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Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.
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I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.
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I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level…
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I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat…
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Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.
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Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.
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The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like…
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I am that which lies beyond time. Like a melody, which sounds completely only after the last note is played.
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I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.
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There are things better left untouched by words …
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Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go.…
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