"The way a source strains toward the light,……" — Anna Kamienska
"The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s the way a poet looks for words. With muscles, gestures."
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Anna Kamienska
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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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My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed…
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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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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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More Air Quotes
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
— Matthew Arnold
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
— Lester Bangs
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
— Jack Adams
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
— Drew Barrymore
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
— Drew Barrymore
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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