"Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and……" — Anna Kamienska
"Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these notes intensify the inner life, which, left unexpressed, slips through your fingers. If only I could find a better kind of journal, humbler, one that would preserve the same thoughts, the same flesh of life, which is worth saving."
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Anna Kamienska
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15 Quotes by Anna Kamienska
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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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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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